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2/27/24
A Cedar Rapids man charged in four different Iowa City sexual assault cases has been found guilty after his latest trial.
The conviction is from an incident that occurred around 1:30am on June 28th, 2017. Police say 36-year-old Carlos Allen Hivento of 15th Street SE grabbed a woman by the arm at The Blue Moose on Iowa Avenue and led her to the roof while saying something about fireworks. He pushed her to the ground and committed forcible sex acts. As in a previous incident, he took away the woman’s phone when she tried calling for help.
The woman got Hivento’s phone number after the incident so she could try to identify him. He later texted her that his name was “Karlos”, a name later used by the suspect in other, similar downtown sexual assault cases.
Hivento was found guilty of 3rd Degree Sexual Abuse. He will be sentenced to ten years in prison on April 5th.
Hivento was convicted of five counts of 3rd Degree Sexual Abuse and two counts of Invasion of Privacy after a separate trial in 2021. He was sentenced to 34 years in prison in that case.
Hivento’s previous sexual assault convictions were from a November 2018 incident which saw him engaged in sex acts with an incapacitated 19-year-old in an apartment stairwell next to the Fieldhouse Bar and later at the Iowa House Hotel inside the Iowa Memorial Union. He’s also alleged to have used his cellphone to take videos of himself engaged in the acts without the victim knowing she was being recorded.
Hivento is still facing sexual assault charges stemming from two other Johnson County cases.
