Parole denied for Napa rapist serving life sentence
(KRON) — A convicted Napa rapist who is serving a life sentence was denied parole. Prison inmate Gilardo Garcia Alvarado, 48, kidnapped and raped an 18-year-old woman on March 14, 1999.
Twenty-five years later, “Mr. Alvarado still does not grasp the profound damage he has caused the victim and her family,” the Napa County District Attorney’s Office wrote. The inmate has also demonstrated a “complete lack of accountability for his behavior.”
The victim was targeted when Alvarado saw her passed out from alcohol inside her friends Chevrolet Blazer in the Riverside Shopping Center parking lot in Napa, prosecutors said. “He obtained the keys to the car and drove her to an unknown location, where he undressed the unconscious woman and raped her. Alvarado then drove to a Chevron gas station on the corner of Imola and Soscol avenues to get gas, where he was contacted and arrested by police,” the DA’s Office wrote.
The California Board of Parole Hearings held a hearing for Alvarado via a teleconference at Chuckawalla Valley State Prison on February 9.
Napa County Assistant District Attorney Paul Gero attended Alvarado’s hearing and requested a longer denial of parole.
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“The denial of Mr. Alvarado’s parole shows a commitment to safeguarding the rights and
dignity of the innocent,” Gero said. “The effects of the kidnapping and rape of an unconscious victim by Mr. Alvarado continue to reverberate so many years later.”
His next parole hearing is scheduled for February 2027, state inmate records show. He remains locked in Chuckawalla Valley State Prison in Blythe, Calif.
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