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Raymond Demetrius Howard of Long Beach pleaded no contest Tuesday to one count each of forcible rape, forcible oral copulation and assault.
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LONG BEACH, CA - A 22-year-old man has been sentenced to 51 years in state prison for raping a woman in Long Beach and assaulting another woman in Signal Hill in attacks less than two weeks apart in 2014, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office
announced today.
Raymond Demetrius Howard of Long Beach pleaded no contest Tuesday to one count each of forcible rape, forcible oral copulation and assault with intent to commit a felony.
Howard -- who was ordered to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life -- also admitted that he inflicted great bodily injury and that he personally used a weapon in the commission of both of the crimes and that he had a prior strike for
robbery.
The charges involve a June 29, 2014 attack on a woman in Long Beach who was followed from a bus stop into an alley, where Howard forcibly sexually assaulted her, and a June 18, 2014, attack at Signal Hill Park on a woman who fought back and escaped,
according to Deputy District Attorney Kelly Kelley.
Long Beach police detectives obtained a photo of a possible suspect in the Long Beach attack and worked with Signal Hill police after learning of an attack in which the assailant had a similar description, police said.
Both of the women described their assailant as having a red skateboard with white polka dots, which Howard was in possession of at the time of his arrest on July 3, 2014, according to the prosecutor.
Eight other charges against Howard were dismissed as a result of his plea.
--City News Service, photo courtesy of the LBPD
https://patch.com/california/belmontshore/long-beach-man-sentenced-51-years-raping-woman-assaulting-another-0
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