SAN JUAN, P.R. -Yonnedil Carror-Torres was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his participation in the carjacking and sexual assault of a female victim, and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. Defendant Carror-Torres pled guilty to the charges on March 2, 2016.
On April 29, 2013 the defendant and three others approached two victims and announced a carjacking: “This is a robbery, get inside". The two victims were forced to move to the rear seat of the vehicle. Carror-Torres had a silver handgun with a black grip and another subject had a shotgun; Carror-Torres demanded money and began to hit the male victim with the handgun on the head inflicting an open wound. A short time later the male victim jumped out of the vehicle. The defendant, along with his co-conspirators fled the area at high speed with the female victim.
At some point Carror-Torres lost control of the vehicle and had an accident. The female victim was then placed in another vehicle with Carror-Torres and another co-conspirator. Later, Carror-Torres sexually assaulted the female victim in the back seat of the second car, while another co-conspirator was in the driver’s seat. In the early hours of April 30, 2013, Trujillo Alto Municipal Officers arrested Carror-Torres and his co-conspirator in the second car where they also found the female victim. Co-conspirators Wilfredo Garay-Sierra and Jovanny Cortes-Malave were previously sentenced to prison terms for the same offense.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Kelly Zenón-Matos.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
