All three suspects in the attack and plot to kidnap Columbia Sportswear Chairwoman Gert Boyle have pleaded guilty.
The last suspect, Ramone Midence, 42, on April 7 agreed to a plea deal to kidnapping, burglary and robbery in a last-minute deal. just before trial. The deal will put Midence behind bars for 9½ years instead of the more than 20 years in prison if he would have been found guilty.
The other defendants, 40-year-old Nestor Gabriel Cabellero Gutierrez and 47-year-old Jose Luis Arevalo, had already pleaded guilty in the case.
The length of Midence's sentence was determined, in part, because Boyle is considered a vulnerable victim. She is 87 years old.
All three suspects will be sentenced next Thursday at the Clackamas County Courthouse.
Boyle, who is 87 years old, was planning to testify. She has not spoken publicly about the attack but has said in a victim impact statement that she has lost her sense of security and independence because of it.
As reported, Boyle last November was confronted outside her home in West Linn, OR by a man claiming to be making a delivery. When she got suspicious, he pulled a gun and ordered her inside the house. In her statement Boyle detailed how Gutierrez forced her at gunpoint into her bedroom, tied her hands behind her back with a rope and stuffed a necktie in her mouth.
Boyle was able to thwart the attack by setting off her home's burglar alarm. When police arrived, Gutierrez fled the house, but he was captured a short time later.
