Wednesday, February 25 2026 - A judge sentenced a Dauphin County man to between 60 and 120 years in state prison last week after he was found guilty of r@ping two spa workers at gunpoint in Lancaster County in 2024.
According to the Office of Lancaster County District
Attorney Heather Adams, Christopher A. Rivera, 38, of Middletown, was
found guilty of two counts each of robbery, r@pe, forcible compulsion and
involuntary deviate s£xual intercourse forcible compulsion, along with four
counts of s£xual assault.
The DA's Office said Rivera held the victims at gunpoint
with a pellet gun inside of a Penn Township spa along the 1200 block of
Lancaster Road on Aug. 27, 2024.
Authorities said Rivera demanded money from the victims, but
he later r@ped them in a massage room after they gave him more than $800 of the
store's proceeds.
Rivera was shown on surveillance footage pointing the pellet
gun at the victims before forcing them into a massage room and later fleeing as
police began to arrive, the DA's Office said.
A Northern Lancaster County Regional Police officer
responding to the scene shortly after 8 p.m. ultimately shot Rivera, who was
ignoring orders while fleeing and still holding the pellet gun, which the DA's
Office said looked like a handgun. Adams later determined that the officer
was justified in shooting at Rivera.
Assistant District Attorney Fritz Haverstick prosecuted the
case. Lancaster County Detective Brent Shultz filed the charges.
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