Alleged Gang Member Found Guilty Of Sex Crimes, Burglary After Southampton Home Invasion: DA

SOUTHAMPTON, NY — Ten months after a shocking home invasion in Southampton Village that left a young woman fleeing naked as a man chased her with a baseball bat, a jury has found her attacker, an alleged gang member, guilty of sex crimes and burglary, according to Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota.

Marvin Siciliano-Nunez, 30, of Hampton Bays, was arrested in August, 2016 after he burglarized a Southampton Village estate and sexually assaulted a teenager, who had been asleep in the home; he forced her to perform oral sex before she fled from the home and he chased her with the bat, the DA said.

A jury convicted Siciliano-Nunez, 20, of first and second degree burglary, first degree criminal sexual act, first degree attempted rape, and and two counts of criminal obstruction of breathing, the DA said.

Siciliano-Nunez will face a sentence of up to 25 years in state prison, the DA said.

State Supreme Court Justice Peter Mayer set sentencing for August 2.

Southampton Village Police found Siciliano-Nunez on Meeting House Lane, near the crime scene on Little Plains Road in the village, on the morning of August 5 of last year; officers apprehended the suspect after a foot chase, the DA said.

Siciliano-Nunez took a skateboard, a phone and some jewelry and then forced the woman, then 19, to perform oral sex as he threatened her with a bat, the DA said.

The jury acquitted the defendant of two counts of first degree burglary in the first degree as a sexually motivated felony and one count of second degree burglary, the DA said.

In August, it was learned that the man charged in Southampton home invasion had been hospitalized for intoxication the night before, police said.

According to Southampton Village Det. Sgt. Herm Lamison, Siciliano-Nunez, who was charged after the sexual assault, had been brought by ambulance to Southampton Hospital the previous night for intoxication after a local carnival and had been released at approximately 7 a.m., before the home invasion.

The victim, Lamison said, was home alone at the time of the attack, and ran naked from the residence as Siciliano-Nunez chased her with a baseball bat.

The attack stunned the affluent Southampton community, where such crimes, "are rare," Lamison said. The quiet nature of the community is why people choose to live in Southampton, he said.

Siciliano-Nunez had been charged in a near-fatal stabbing just three months earlier, police said.

After the home invasion, he was arrested and charged with first degree burglary, second degree burglary, first degree sexual abuse, first degree criminal sex act, all felonies, and criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation, a misdemeanor, police said.

According to Southampton Village Police, a 911 call came in on August 5 at 8:05 a.m. about a possible sexual assault at a home on Little Plains Road.

The residence is located among multi-million dollar homes in one of the most exclusive and wealthy areas in the country, in the heart of Southampton Village.

Officers were quickly dispatched to the immediate area, where a perimeter was set up around the home, police said.

Soon after, a patrol officer spotted a man walking east on Meeting House Lane, approximately one tenth of a mile from the location of the attack, police said.

As the officer approached the man, he "took off running," leading the officer on a foot pursuit, police said.

A second officer joined in on the foot pursuit and moments later, the man was apprehended and taken into custody, police said.

Siciliano-Nunez is alleged to have entered multiple residences on a property on Little Plains Road, stealing assorted jewelry, a cell phone and a skateboard from a pool house, police said.

He then is alleged to have entered the main house, while the young woman was sleeping in a bedroom, police said.

He threatened the woman with bodily harm if she didn't comply with his demands, police said.

The victim was taken to Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead where she received medical treatment, police said.

Southampton Village Police were assisted in the investigation by the New York State Police crime scene team and Southampton Town Police.

Sicliano-Nunez was among four people charged with felony gang assault in May after a double stabbing outside a Hampton Bays bar, police said.

He is believed to have ties to the MS-13 gang, police said.

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