Nine years added to kidnapper's sentence

A successful appeal by the district attorney’s staff got a Clovis man nine more years in prison Wednesday for his 2011 kidnapping and rape conviction, according to a release from District Attorney Andrea Reeb.

Reeb said Jesus Oscar Dominguez was originally sentenced in 2012 to 18 years after District Judge Stephen Quinn ruled the kidnapping charge was a second-degree felony.

Quinn was reversed by the state Court of Appeals, which ruled the kidnapping conviction was a first-degree felony and ordered Dominguez re-sentenced accordingly, Reeb said.

The new sentence is for 27 years.

Dominguez was accused of attacking a Clovis woman while she was home alone caring for her 4-year-old daughter.

Reeb said Dominguez posed as a friend of the victim’s father, said his car was out of gas and asked to use her bathroom and borrow a fuel can. When he came out of the bathroom,

Dominguez, armed with a gun, used a hooded sweatshirt to mask his face and attacked the woman, according to the release.

Reeb said while the victim wasn’t able to identify her attacker, a DNA sample from the attack matched Dominguez, an illegal immigrant living in Clovis. Dominguez had a long history of being deported and illegally re-entering the country and happened to be in jail for assault when investigators matched the DNA sample.