Sex offender sentenced to 15 years in prison for Salinas bus assault

A transient was sentenced to 15 years in state prison for sexually assaulting two women on a bus in Salinas.

The Monterey County District Attorney’s Office said the incident occurred on August 23, 2016, when 38-year-old Marveil Williams boarded an MST bus on north Main Street in Salinas. According to the DA’s office, Williams sat next to a 45-year-old woman and started grabbing at her chest.

The woman screamed for the bus driver who told Williams to sit somewhere else.

“The driver of the bus stepped out of the bus and the man approached the woman with his pants at his knees, penis exposed and attempted to push her head down towards his pelvic area,” said District Attorney, Dean. Flippo.

A man seated at the front of the bus allegedly pulled Williams off the woman and yelled for the bus driver.

The DA’s office said before the bus driver could call police Williams grabbed another woman’s butt.

Williams, a transient, was convicted of attempted carjacking in Santa Monica in 2009.

On May 1, Williams pleaded no contest to the crimes of attempted forcible oral copulation and assault with the intent to commit a sex crime.