Navy Yeoman Could Get Life in Rapes, Robberies
A Navy yeoman faces life in prison when sentenced Sept. 2 for a crime spree in which he committed a series of robberies and sexual assaults, officials said.
An Orange County Superior Court jury on Monday convicted Amos Dwayne Stevenson, 22, of kidnaping, robbery, sexual assault and other charges.
Stevenson was assigned to the mobile mine assembly group at the Seal Beach Naval Station and was in the Navy brig in Long Beach for an unrelated assault when he was arrested in June, 1993. He is awaiting a Navy administrative review, said Navy spokesman Richard Williamson.
In the last attack on Dec. 13, Stevenson ordered two female victims at gunpoint to drive him to the Huntington Beach Mall parking lot, where he locked one woman in the trunk of the car and raped the other woman in the back seat.
In September, 1993, Stevenson forced a couple to withdraw money from an automated bank teller machine, and in December he sexually assaulted another woman after forcing her to withdraw money from a bank.
A purse belonging to one victim was found at the Seal Beach naval station, and investigators used DNA testing to link him to the Huntington Beach rape.
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