A man jailed for 33 years to life in Sonoma County last year for stabbing his wife seven times in the neck was a twice-deported Mexican rapist who was captured again two months before the attempted murder but bailed by a federal judge in San Francisco, it has emerged.
Adrian Cervantes-Alvarez, 38, appeared today at San Francisco federal courthouse where he pleaded guilty to ‘being a deported alien found in the United States’ and was sentenced to 36-months imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer.
He will not serve additional time as the sentence will run concurrent to his state prison term.
Cervantes-Alvarez was on the streets to attempt to kill his wife after U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler granted him pre-trial release on the immigration charge on June 2 2020.
On August 4 2020 Cervantes-Alvarez committed the crime.
While it did come during the early months of the pandemic, Cervantes-Alvarez’ release was surprising as he was in 2009 convicted of rape and false imprisonment in Sonoma County, sentenced to four years in state prison and then deported (for what was then the second time).
Cervantes-Alvarez’ immigration status was glossed over in a press release issued by Sonoma district attorney Carla Rodriguez announcing his conviction last year.
In that statement she imprecisely referred to him as “a Santa Rose man” leaving residents none the wiser about the true state of affairs nor his trajectory through the justice system.
As a result of Rodriguez’ statement media coverage also referred to him in the same imprecise way.
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