A Kern County Superior Court jury convicted Vincent Zavier Deleon of multiple charges, including rape and kidnapping, stemming from a 2023 attack on a woman leaving a Bakersfield gym.
The jury found Deleon guilty on April 15, 2026, of all charges, which included rape, oral copulation by force, sodomy, rape with a foreign object, carjacking, kidnapping, robbery, conspiracy, dissuading a witness, assault with a semi-automatic firearm, and being a felon with a firearm.
On Dec. 15, 2023, the victim was leaving the In-Shape gym on Coffee Road in Bakersfield. As she got into her car, Deleon, wearing a mask and gloves and armed with a firearm, opened the driver’s door. He pointed the gun at her head and demanded she move to the passenger seat…