By Cathy Locke
clocke@sacbee.com
A Woodland man has received four consecutive life sentences plus 17 years and four months in state prison for the 2009 kidnapping and attempted robbery of a father and his three young sons.
Paul Alexander Hinojosa Jr., 31, was sentenced Wednesday by Yolo County Superior Court Judge David Rosenberg, according to a news release from the Yolo County District Attorney's Office.
A Yolo County jury on March 15 convicted Hinojosa of multiple kidnapping, carjacking and child endangerment offenses, the release states.
The release gave this chain of events:
On May 2, 2009, Hinojosa asked a man, a sympathetic stranger, for a ride home from K's Carwash in Woodland.
Once in the car with the man and his three children, Hinojosa pulled out a gun and demanded money, threatening to kill the man if his demands weren't met.
Hinojosa also threatened to kill everyone in the victim's household if the man reported the incident to police.
The children were able to escape when their father distracted Hinojosa by grabbing the muzzle of what was determined to be a replica firearm. The two fought over the gun before Hinojosa got out of the car and fled.
Hinojosa ran to a nearby home where the residents, also strangers to Hinojosa, detained him until police arrived.
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