LONG BEACH : Fired Officer Gets 11 Years for Kidnaping Woman
A fired Long Beach police sergeant was sentenced Friday to 11 years in prison for kidnaping a San Pedro woman with the intent to rape her.
Robert Ballew, 46, was handed the maximum penalty by Long Beach Superior Court Judge Richard R. Romero. Last month, a jury convicted the 16-year police veteran of kidnaping, false imprisonment and kidnaping with the intent to rape in 1991.
Last August, a jury acquitted Ballew of an attempted 1991 rape and another rape of a Long Beach woman in 1985. But prosecutors reopened the investigation, producing additional charges.
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