Crime
The man was convicted on six counts, including rape, and acquitted on four others, including kidnapping and assault and battery.
A Boston man was found guilty Friday on several charges, including rape and strangulation, prosecutors announced.
Rinnyers Pena, 47, was convicted of two counts of rape, two counts of photographing an unsuspecting nude person, one count of strangulation, and one count of drugging for sexual intercourse, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said in a press release.
Pena was found not guilty on a third count of photographing an unsuspecting nude person, along with two counts of assault and battery on a family or household member and one count of kidnapping, court records show. These charges collectively stem from two separate indictments; one was filed in October 2021, and the other was filed in December 2025.
In a third, unrelated case, Pena is facing one count of disinterring a body in connection with the death of 38-year-old Alenny Matos, prosecutors said. He was expected to take a plea deal in that case April 29 but abruptly changed his mind.
Pena was initially supposed to plead guilty in all three cases, his attorney, Paul Davenport, told Boston.com. After Friday’s verdict, Davenport said he is now “optimistic” that Pena will plead guilty in the remaining case.
Matos, a former Dorchester resident, was reported missing in January 2020. Four months later, a woman walking her dog near Enneking Parkway in Hyde Park found her body in a wooded area, according to the DA’s office.
Surveillance footage, phone location information, and interviews led authorities to believe that Pena was with Matos the day after she was last seen. By the time they identified him as a suspect, he was already behind bars after being found dangerous in one of the other cases.
Pena is scheduled to be sentenced Monday morning in Suffolk Superior Court, according to the DA’s office. Davenport declined to comment further on the jury’s verdict or the outstanding charge that Pena faces.
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