A Lake County Common Pleas Court jury has found a former Painesville resident guilty of kidnapping and raping a teenage girl.
Migel Gross, 36, was found guilty on charges of rape, kidnapping, gross sexual imposition and unlawful sexual conduct with a minor.
According to the indictment, Gross removed the female victim from a Painesville location in February 2008 and then forced the girl to engage in sexual conduct.
The girl was 14 at the time of the offense and she did not know the defendant.
The trial began Monday.
The the jury returned its verdict about 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Judge Eugene A. Lucci said Gross faces between 10 and 18 years in prison for the offenses.
�It depends on whether the kidnapping charge is seen as a separate act or part and parcel of the rape charge,� Lucci said.
It won�t be Gross� first stint behind bars.
In April 2006, Lucci sentenced Gross to four years in prison for trafficking cocaine and corrupting another with drugs.
Gross was granted judicial release less than nine months later but ended up serving the remainder of the sentence after violating the terms of his probation.
Gross� sentencing is slated for 11:30 a.m. May 12.
