Man Convicted Of Boxcutter-Wielding Attacks on LB Women -- Including Robbery Of East Village Storeowner Reported By LBReport.com -- Sentenced to 400+ Yrs.

LB Superior Court Judge Gary Ferrari sentenced Charles Juan Proctor, 45, to 433 years plus 11 life sentences on 22 felony counts involving six victims, including five counts of robbery; three counts each of kidnap for robbery, false imprisonment, and burglary; two counts each of attempted murder and mayhem; and one count each of attempted robbery, attempted kidnap for robbery, assault with a deadly weapon and assault. He was also ordered to pay restitution to two victims totaling $57,790 for their medical expenses and $10,000 to the state victims’ restitution fund.

The crimes included an April 2008 attack on a woman who'd opened an East Village business barely three weeks earlier...and was victimized by having a box cutter held to her neck by a man who entered her store, forced her into a closet, pulled on her skirt and then relented before robbing the store of cash.

LBReport.com learned of the attack and reported it. Two days later, LBPD issued an advisory noting that the same suspect might have been involved in three other robberies nearby within the previous four days...and urging the public to be aware.

During trial, it became known that Proctor's attacks began with a Feb. 18, 2008 robbery, kidnap for robbery and burglary of a woman at a hair salon. A D.A. release indicates the defendant's violent spree went on to include five assaults from April 26 through May 2, 2008 [including the one LBReport.com reported], four of which were in downtown Long Beach...with one in Hawaiian Gardens.

Deputy D.A. Carol Rose in the LB Branch office prosecuted the case which linked Proctor to the LB and Hawaiian Gardens crimes by DNA evidence, fingerprints, eyewitness identification and surveillance video footage.

The majority of Proctor's victims were shop owners attacked at their businesses; the remaining victims were shop employees...and the defendant chose women who were alone, a D.A. release notes.

One of the more brutal attacks involved slashing a woman who sustained a four-inch wound to her neck plus stab wounds to her face and head; the next day, Proctor slit the throat of another victim, inflicting quarter-inch-wide wound to her neck; both women survived.

On May 2, Proctor robbed and attempted to kidnap a woman in downtown Long Beach...and two days later he was arrested in Las Vegas for trespassing. DNA linked him to a December 2007 attempt to kidnap a woman from a Las Vegas parking lot in which he cut the victim's throat with a box cutter.

In 2008, Proctor was convicted of Las Vegas crimes and extradited to L.A. County. He also has a 1988 attempted sexual assault conviction in Nevada and is currently serving a Nevada prison term for crimes similar to those here.

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