In truly shocking news, THN has heard that Joseph Hyungmin Son, the actor that played the role of DR. Evil’s henchman Random Task in the 1997 movie AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY, has been jailed in California for a twenty-year-old crime. Son was put behind bars for the 1990 Christmas Eve ‘torture’ of a woman.
The former actor is now looking at 15 years to life for the crime, one felony count of torture, stemming from his arrest on Oct. 7, 2008 on an outstanding warrant.
What follows is truly shocking.
MSNBC reports:
Per the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, Son distracted the woman by asking for directions and pretending he was lost. Son and co-defendant, Santiago Gaitan, then dragged her to their car and threw her in the back. After pistol whipping her and telling her they were driving to Compton, the men instead drove to Huntington Beach where they raped her repeatedly, sodomized her and forced her to give them oral sex.
The D.A. also stated that Son also threatened to kill her, penetrated her vagina with a firearm, and counted the bullets in the gun out loud while the victim pleaded for her life.
Prosecutors led with the torture charge on the case. “We didn’t proceed on the sexual assault charges based on the statute of limitations,” D.A. spokeswoman Farrah Emami told E! News . “So the sexual assault charges were not taken before a jury so the only count he was found guilty of was torture. But based on that count, he still faces a maximum sentence of 15 years to life so it’s still a very significant count to be found guilty of.”
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