Accused Contra Costa serial rapist, with five charged victims, gets 25 years in state prison
Curtis Brown III, 32, was sentenced to 25 years in a plea deal with Contra Costa prosecutors.
MARTINEZ — A Bay Area man who was facing charges of sexually assaulting five people accepted a 25-year prison term as part of a plea deal with Contra Costa prosecutors last year, court records show.
Curtis “Fifty” Brown III, 32, agreed to plead no contest to assault with intent to commit rape, making criminal threats, second-degree robbery, and dissuading a witness from reporting a crime. In exchange for those pleas, 13 other charges — mostly alleging rape or other sexual assaults — were dismissed.
Brown had been charged with sexually assaulting three women and two girls, going back to 2014. One of the victims accused him of sexually assaulting her near the Antioch Fairgrounds in January 2020, the same day she and Brown met. She alleged he held a knife to her throat during the incident.
By accepting a 25-year sentence with about two years credit for time served in the jail, Brown avoided a potential life term if he’d been convicted of all counts and enhancements. He is serving his sentence at California Correctional Institution, in Tehachapi, records show.
Brown’s attorney didn’t respond to a request for comment.