Man gets life after DNA ties him to crimes

A 42-year-old man was sentenced Friday to 160 years to life in prison after DNA samples linked him to the kidnapping and rape of two women in January 2002, prosecutors said.

Superior Court Judge Michael Garcia sentenced Alonzo Elmer Jackson under the state's "three strikes law" because he had a prior conviction for kidnapping and assault with the intent to commit rape in Los Angeles County in 1989, according to the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office.

The Sacramento rapes went unsolved for two years until attention shifted to Jackson. DNA samples he provided matched those from the 2002 crimes, prosecutors said.

In June 2004, Sacramento County sheriff's officials quietly walked Jackson off his sales job at a Good Guys electronics store and arrested him on suspicion of committing the two kidnappings and sexual assaults.

One of the victims was abducted a short distance from his south Sacramento workplace, authorities said at the time.

Jackson was convicted Aug. 8.