2 Men Convicted of Kidnapping, Carjacking FBI Employee in South Dakota

Published on January 26, 2024

RAPID CITY, S.D.—A federal jury in South Dakota has convicted two men on charges related to the 2022 kidnapping of an FBI employee. The jury in Rapid City on Tuesday found 29-year-old Deyvin Morales and 25-year-old Juan Alvarez-Soto guilty of kidnapping, carjacking and other counts, the Rapid City Journal reported. Mr. Alvarez-Soto, who is from El Salvador, also was found guilty of unlawfully entering the United States after being deported. Both men face sentencing April 12 and could get up to life in prison. The men and a third suspect, 29-year-old Karla Lopez-Gutierrez, left Greeley, Colorado, on May 5, 2022, and were on a “drug trafficking trip” to South Dakota in a Ford Expedition, prosecutors said....

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