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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, DEC. 23, 2018
BY COLIN MIXSON
Cops arrested an out-of-state trucker
for hitting and killing a senior in Kensington
while driving a big rig with a
suspended license.
The 54-year-old defendant, who
lives in Ohio, faces up to one year in
prison if convicted of the top count of
aggravated unlicensed operation of a
motor vehicle in the third degree, one
of the charges prosecutors slapped him
with at a Criminal Court arraignment
following the deadly Dec. 12 crash, according
to a spokesman for the district
attorney.
The motorist was driving a 2005
Kenworth tractor-trailer on Courtelyou
Road towards Borough Park when
he turned left onto McDonald Avenue
at 6:55 am, and struck the 71-year-old
Ocean Parkway resident as he crossed
the street, cops said.
Police rushed to the scene and found
the victim lodged between the second
and third axle of the defendant’s truck,
according to court documents.
The victim never made it to the hospital,
and paramedics pronounced him
dead on the spot, cops said.
PRISON BOUND: Romaric Guiebre is going behind
bars — possibly for life — for breaking into a
woman’s apartment and sexually assaulting her in
2016. District Attorney’s Offi ce
Crown Heights man
gets 40 years to life
for sexual assault
BY JULIANNE CUBA
A Crown Heights man is headed behind bars
— possibly for the rest of his days — for sexually
assaulting a woman and threatening to
kill her inside her Bushwick home, according
to Brooklyn’s top prosecutor.
A judge on Dec. 13 sentenced Romaric
Guibre to 40 years to life in prison for the violent
home invasion that District Attorney
Eric Gonzalez called particularly egregious
and unnerving.
“This was an especially heinous attack
in which the defendant assaulted and terrorized
a woman for hours,” Gonzalez said. “It’s
important for people to feel safe in the sanctity
of their own home.”
A jury last month convicted Guiebre on
charges including sexual assault, burglary,
and robbery after he broke into the 29-yearold
woman’s DeKalb Avenue apartment using
a spare key, sexually assaulted her, and
stole cash on July 25, 2016.
The victim told the courtroom that she
woke up in the middle of the night to the
sound of a key turning in her front door,
and saw Guiebre standing in her apartment
when she went to check who was entering.
The victim screamed at the sight of him,
and he grabbed her neck and shoved her
into her bedroom, where he whipped out a
gun and threatened, “I’m going to kill you,”
the top prosecutor said.
The woman, however, fought back, biting
Guiebre on his nose and drawing blood.
But Guiebre persisted, tying up the victim,
blindfolding her with a bedsheet, and sexually
assaulting her, according to Gonzalez,
who said he made her take a shower afterwards.
Following the brutal assault, Guiebre
grabbed the victim’s debit card and withdrew
$400 from her bank account and again
threatened to kill her if she reported the incident,
before shoving her bedding and his
blood-soaked items in a garbage bag and
leaving, Gonzalez said.
The woman then called her boyfriend,
who reported the attack to authorities, offi -
cials said.
Cops cuffed Guiebre weeks later on Aug.
23 after recovering his blood on the victim’s
bedroom and bathroom fl oors, according to
Gonzalez, who said he worked as a house
cleaner and previously scrubbed the woman’s
apartment, when he likely picked up
the spare key he used to break in the night
of the assault.
Trucker cuffed
for fatal crash
in Kensington