Fringe MMA figure Joe Son convicted in 1990 rape
An actor who appeared in an Austin Powers movie and several budget action films has been convicted of a 1990…
An actor who appeared in an Austin Powers movie and several budget action films has been convicted of a 1990 gang rape in Orange County.
Joseph Hyungmin Son was found guilty of one felony count of torture Thursday. A statute of limitations had expired on other counts.
Prosecutors say Son and an accomplice pulled the victim into a car on Christmas Eve in 1990 and drove her toward Huntington Beach as they beat her with a gun and raped her.
The investigation had gone cold until Son was required to provide a DNA sample in 2008 in connection with a vandalism sentence.
He faces a maximum sentence of 15 years to life in state prison.
Son played Random Task in the 1997 film “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.”
