Man gets 30 years in rape, kidnapping

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) - An illegal immigrant who admitted raping a woman in Roger Williams Park has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

According to Michael Healy, spokesman for Attorney General Patrick Lynch, Marco Riz, 27, pleaded no contest on April 6 in Providence County Superior Court to two counts of first-degree sexual assault.

"In exchange for the plea and to spare the victim from having to testify, charges of kidnapping, felony assault and second-degree carjacking were dismissed," said Healey.

The judge sentenced Riz to 60 years. Thirty of them to be served at the Adult Correctional Institutions in Cranston and the other 30 suspended with probation.

Police accused Riz of carjacking a woman in a Stop & Shop parking lot in Warwick last June, then drove her to Roger Williams Park in Providence, where he allegedly sexually assaulted her twice.

The victim told police she was sitting in the passenger seat of her mother's parked car, when the suspect approached the vehicle.