Local News in Brief : Sherman Oaks Man Sentenced in 2 Crimes
A38-year-old Sherman Oaks man was sentenced Thursday to 34 years in prison for attempted murder, rape and robbery after pleading guilty to charges stemming from two crimes in the San Fernando Valley last spring.
Police said that, last May 17, Alfred Granados forced his way into an Encino home and terrorized a resident by placing a loaded gun under her dress. When police arrested Grenados near the home he had stolen jewelry in his possession, they said.
On June 3, after being released on bail, Grenados demanded money from a Tarzana resident after breaking into her home, police said. He then raped the woman and fired a pistol, narrowly missing her, they said.
Granados was originally charged with 16 felony counts but reached an agreement with the district attorney’s office and pleaded guilty last month to eight counts stemming from the two incidents.
Granados, a former part-time counselor at Santa Monica City College, was described as “a vicious, brutal, callous and totally insensitive evil-doer” in a report by probation officer Dennis Abrams released Thursday at the proceeding in Van Nuys Superior Court.
In the report to Superior Court Judge Melvin Grover, Abrams wrote that “allowing him to ever walk the streets of a free society again is absolutely unthinkable, unjustified, and without reason.”
The defendant will be eligible for parole after serving half of his sentence.
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