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SALT LAKE CITY — A man who completed his probation "unsuccessfully" less than a year ago was arrested Thursday by police and accused of sexually assaulting a stranger in Salt Lake City.
Marcos Antonio Reyes, 41, who is also listed as Reyez in court records, is accused of raping a woman near a TRAX station near Main Street and South Temple about 3:45 a.m. Surveillance video obtained by officers shows Reyes pushing the woman against a wall and striking her in either her chest or head with his knee before sexually assaulting her, a police booking affidavit states.
Reyes was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of rape, object rape, forcible sexual abuse and interfering with an arrest for allegedly resisting officers attempting to take him into custody.
Court records show that in addition to numerous charges for theft of services, which typically involve the use of public transportation such as TRAX without buying a ticket, Reyes was arrested and charged in 2021 for sexual battery. In that case, Reyes inappropriately touched a woman shopping in a Salt Lake County Target store.
A month prior to that incident, Reyes broke into the Blue Boutique in Salt Lake City and stole nearly $1,000 worth of merchandise, court records state. He was charged with burglary.
Reyes was convicted in 2022 of both the sexual battery and burglary cases. He was originally sentenced to a year in jail with credit for time served, had several months of his sentence suspended, and was placed on two years of probation. But between August and November of 2022, Adult Probation and Parole requested arrest warrants for Reyes three times for eight violations of his probation.
He was arrested and booked into jail in October of 2022 and again in November 2022 where he stayed for 157 days and was given credit for previous time he had already served. He was released on April 29, 2023.
After being rearrested, released and arrested again multiple times on probation violations, Adult Probation and Parole wrote in a progress report to the court in May that Reyes "has made zero attempt to regain contact with this agency and has failed to report into any of this agency's offices to resume his community supervision," and further noted that "Marcos Reyes has never reported into this agency since his original sentencing date of Aug. 12, 2022."
Adult Probation and Parole officials said they had no contact information for Reyes, "as Marcos Reyes has never actually stepped foot into any of this agency's offices.
"Absconding is the common trend for Marcos Reyes and as the court is aware, this agency cannot supervise a person who does not wish to be supervised in the first place. Marcos Reyes has made it blatantly clear to not only this agency, but hopefully the court as well, he does not wish to engage in community supervision and further attempts would be monotonous," the agency said in its progress report while also recommending he be ordered to serve his full year in jail to close out the case.
On July 21, Reyes was arrested on another outstanding warrant. and during his July 28 court hearing, his probation was revoked again, according to court records. But by that time, Reyes had been in and out of jail so much, that he had essentially served his original one-year sentence. A judge ordered that his probation be terminated "unsuccessfully" and that he be released from the Salt Lake County Jail.
Since July, Reyes has been charged five more times in various justice courts in Salt Lake County for theft of services and once for trespassing, according to court records.
