AUBURN – A Lewiston man nabbed last April in a national fugitive sweep was sentenced to 30 days in jail on Tuesday.
Jose Osorio, 33, was one of 10,340 fugitives arrested this spring during a U.S. Marshals Service sweep dubbed Operation Falcon.
He was initially charged with gross sexual assault for allegedly raping a girl under the age of 14.
The state agreed to drop the charge to a misdemeanor assault due to difficulties in building its case, Assistant District Attorney Deborah Cashman told Justice Joseph Jabar during a hearing Tuesday in Androscoggin County Superior Court.
Osorio is serving a year sentence for violating his probation. The 30 days for the assault will be served consecutively with that term.
The assault occurred in 2003. Police searched for Osorio for more than a year after discovering that he had moved out of his Bates Street apartment.
In April, with a little help from some of the nearly 1,000 officers across the country who participated in Operation Falcon, he was found in Lowell, Mass.
More than three dozen people from the Lewiston area were arrested in the sweep. Nationally, the operation resulted in the highest number of arrests ever in one coordinated effort, officials said.
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