Arrested this spring on sexual-battery and false-imprisonment charges, a former student government official at UCLA is back on the streets less than halfway through his sentence.
The Daily Bruin reports that Omar Arce, the Community Service commissioner for the Undergraduate Students Association Council last year, was released Tuesday after 77 days in county jail.
He pleaded no contest in October under a plea deal, the Daily previously reported:
In April, Arce pleaded not guilty to three counts of sexual battery, one count of battery and one count of false imprisonment, which could have resulted in a maximum sentence of four and a half years behind bars. He faced an additional four counts of sexual battery and three counts of battery on Tuesday because two other women have since come forward as victims of battery, [Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Alan] Rubin said.
Arce’s sexual batteries against the first accuser allegedly took place between October 2013 and March this year. With the added charges, he could have gone to prison for 8 years.
As a condition of his early release – due to overcrowding in the jail – Arce must stay away from UCLA until October 2015 and abstain from alcohol among other rules. If he violates probation, which runs until October 2018, he’ll go back to jail for a year and have to register as a sex offender.
The prosecution only sought a 180-day sentence “because it thought that number fit the crime,” the prosecuting attorney told the Daily.
Arce appears to have dodged another bullet: The Daily said in October that because he wasn’t a U.S. citizen, he could face deportation “or other consequences concerning his immigration status,” which now appear to be off the table.
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