Rapist sentenced to 25 years in prison

WHITE PLAINS – A 27-year-old Port Chester man who pled guilty to first-degree rape was sentenced in Westchester County Court Tuesday to 25 years in state prison.

Federico Ordaz-Ceja hid in the back seat of a woman’s car as she went to a gas station in Port Chester at 11:40 p.m. on August 26, 2007 to buy a pack of gum and cigarettes.

As the woman began to drive home, the man, later identified as Ordaz-Ceja, put a knife to the woman’s throat and ordered her to drive to a desolate area where he forced her into the back seat of her car and repeatedly raped her. He then fled the area taking the victim’s car keys. A passing taxi picked her up and brought her to the Port Chester Police.

Ordaz-Ceja was tracked to Chicago where, with the assistance of the Chicago Police Department and U.S. Marshal’s Service, he was apprehended in September 2007.

Back in New York, DNA testing confirmed his identity as the attacker.