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
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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.
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-year-old 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.
Crown Heights man
gets 40 years to life
for sexual assault
Trucker cuffed
for fatal crash
in Kensington