Friday, August 31, 2012
Salvador Portillo Saravia, who is already serving a 25-year sentence for raping a child, was sentenced Friday to a year in prison for illegally re-entering the country.
Salvador Portillo Saravia, who is already serving a hefty prison sentence for raping an 8-year-old Centreville girl, was sentenced to an additional year on immigration charges. On Friday, United States District Judge Claude Hilton sentenced Portillo Saravia, who in July pleaded guilty to the charge of illegally reentering the U.S. after being deported. Portillo Saravia is a native of El Salvador and authorities say he is also a member of the MS-13 street gang. Portillo Saravia, now 30, raped the 9-year-old girl around shortly after Christmas 2010, authorities said. He then fled to Texas, where he was captured in February 2011. A Washington Post article showed that Portillo Saravia should have been caught after being charged with a …
Friday, July 27, 2012
The case fueled changes to the federal Secure Communities program last year.
Salvador Portillo Saravia, who was sentenced early this year to 25 years in prison for raping an 8-year-old Centreville girl, on Thursday also pleaded guilty to immigration charges. Portillo Saravia, 30, a citizen of El Salvador, faces up to two years in prison for illegally re-entering the United States after being deported. He pleaded guilty in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Claude M. Hilton and will be sentenced on August 31. News of the sexual assault and illegal re-entry made waves nationally, after a Washington Post article revealed that Portillo Saravia never should have been in the country in the first place—and by extension, that there were shortcomings with Secure Communities, a federal database that tracks deported …
Friday, February 17, 2012
Salvador Portillo-Saravia, 30, was sentenced in Fairfax County Circuit Court on Friday.
Salvador Portillo-Saravia used to call the young Centreville girl his niece. After all, he was a fixture in her life as she grew up, even if they weren't related to one another. He came over to her home to celebrate birthdays, joined in on family parties, and even occasionally spent the weekend. But just after the family celebrated Christmas in 2010, Portillo-Saravia, apparently drunk at the time, raped the girl, who was only 8 years old. On Friday, Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Dennis J. Smith sentenced Portillo-Saravia to 15 years in prison for the sodomy charge, with 10 years suspended. For the rape charge, Smith sentenced Portillo-Saravia to 35 years in prison with 15 years suspended. "If I could make you give her back her …
Monday, February 7, 2011
Salvador Portillo-Saravia, 29, apprehended in Houston
On Sunday authorities arrested Salvador Portillo-Saravia, a fugitive who has been on the run since Fairfax County issued a warrant for his arrest early last month for allegedly raping an eight-year-old Centreville girl. Portillo-Saravia, 29, who lived in the Sterling area, was an acquaintance of the family. He was inside the family's home on Cardigan Square in Centreville the morning of Dec. 26 and sexually assaulted the child, Fairfax County police said. The victim reported the incident to a family member on the same day, Officer Bud Walker, a spokesman for the Fairfax County Police Department, said at the time. Portillo-Saravia, a member of the MS-13 gang, had snuck back into the United States illegally after being deported to his …
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Fairfax County police are searching for Salvador Portillo-Saravia, 29, of Sterling
Updated Wednesday, 6:23 p.m. Fairfax and Loudoun County Police and U.S. Marshalls spent the morning searching areas of Sterling for Portillo. New details have emerged on the man's past as well. The Washington Post reported this morning that he is a native of El Salvador and purportedly a member of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang, with "MS13" tattoos on his chest, along with other gang-style tattoos on his hands, arms and upper body. Updated Tuesday 4:15 p.m. Police have obtained felony warrants for the arrest of a Sterling man on charges of rape and sodomy, in connection with the sexual assault of an 8-year-old Centreville girl that took place on Dec. 26. Salvador Portillo-Saravia, 29, of Sterling, an acquaintance of the …
Mary C. Stachyra
3:35 pm on Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Well actually, it was the defense lawyer who said that, not the judge. Just doing his job with obviously very little to work with. more ›