Release Date: December 20, 2005

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Gilbert Romero, Deputy District Attorney

(805) 654-2524

District Attorney Gregory D. Totten announced today that Italian national Carlo Parlanti (DOB 11-1-64) was found guilty of rape, battery inflicting injury on his cohabitant, and false imprisonment. On June 29, 2002, the defendant, while intoxicated, battered his live-in girlfriend with his hands and feet, bound her wrists to her ankles with plastic zip ties, and raped her. The victim waited almost three weeks before reporting the incident to the Ventura County Sheriff's Department. After the victim reported the incident, Parlanti left the United States for Europe. He was arrested in 2004 in Germany, and spent more than a year fighting extradition to the United States.

At the trial a prior girlfriend of Parlanti testified that the defendant was physically abusive with her while they cohabitated in 1999.

Parlanti faces a mandatory prison commitment for the rape charge and must serve 85 percent of his sentence before he is eligible for parole. The maximum possible sentence Parlanti faces is nine years.