Man accused of rape sentenced to six...

Man accused of rape sentenced to six years

An Orange County Superior Court Judge on Friday sentenced a Tustin

man to six years in prison for the videotaped rape of an unconscious

woman in Newport Beach.

Earlier this year, a jury found Allen Ward Crocker, 37, guilty of

raping a 24-year-old woman in September at his friend’s Walnut Street

apartment. That friend, 42-year-old Timothy James Marino, is still at

large and was featured on “America’s Most Wanted.�

The defense in the case used the video tape in an attempt to prove

Crocker’s innocence, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Steve McGreevey.

“The defendant had the video tape and believed the tape showed she

was awake, alert and conscious,� McGreevey said.

But the jury, he said, thought otherwise.

The case has similarities to the alleged videotaped gang-rape of

an apparently unconscious 16-year-old girl in the Corona del Mar home

of Orange County Assistant Sheriff Don Haidl. His son, Greg Haidl,

and Keith Spann and Kyle Nachreiner, all 19, are charged in the 2002

incident. A jury in that case failed to reach a verdict and all three

face an upcoming retrial of the case.