{"id":155943,"date":"2025-09-19T23:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T23:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/155943\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T23:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T23:53:07","slug":"former-mma-fighter-sentenced-to-50-years-in-prison-for-sexually-assaulting-homeless-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/155943\/","title":{"rendered":"Former MMA fighter sentenced to 50 years in prison for sexually assaulting homeless women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 A former MMA fighter was sentenced to 50 years in prison Friday for sexually assaulting homeless women in Portland.<\/p>\n<p>Zachary Lee Andrews, 33, was convicted on 16 different charges, including three counts of first-degree rape, three counts of sexual abuse, and a kidnapping charge.<\/p>\n<p>Court records show that Andrews, who also goes by \u2018Cadillac,\u2019 targeted women experiencing homelessness between October 2021 and October of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s sentencing of 50 years brings long-awaited accountability for Zachary Andrews, a serial predator who inflicted profound harm on multiple victims,\u201d Multnomah County District Attorney Nathan Vasquez said. \u201cWhile no prison term can undo the trauma he caused, this outcome ensures he can no longer hurt others. We are grateful to the survivors whose courage and testimony brought the truth to light.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PAST COVERAGE | <a href=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/news\/local\/alleged-serial-rapist-of-homeless-women-arrested-in-portland-police-seek-more-victims#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/news\/local\/alleged-serial-rapist-of-homeless-women-arrested-in-portland-police-seek-more-victims#\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alleged serial rapist of homeless women arrested in Portland; police seek more victims<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would also like to thank SDDA Robin Skarstad who prosecuted this case for the state, Detective Wollstein, DA Investigator Heather Hughes and Victim Advocate, Amina Dureti who fought tirelessly for justice. Our community is safer today because of their strength and commitment,\u201d DA Vasquez continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 A former MMA fighter was sentenced to 50 years in prison Friday for sexually assaulting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[81893,49,48,641,81895,638,20154,6711,81892,81894,82,81897,81896],"class_list":{"0":"post-155943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-50-years","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-homeless-women","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-mma-fighter","15":"tag-prison","16":"tag-sentenced","17":"tag-sexually-assaulting","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-victims","20":"tag-zachary-andrews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}