CLEVELAND — Rayshon Reese, the 51-year-old man who pleaded guilty to charges related to kidnapping and attacking a woman with a box cutter at a bus sto p in Cleveland's Ohio City neighborhood earlier this year, was sentenced on Thursday.

Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge David Matia sentenced Reese to 22 to 27.5 years in prison.

Last month, Reese agreed to plead guilty to one count of kidnapping and one count of attempted murder. The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office dropped two charges of felonious assault and said it would not impose additional punishment under the repeat violent offender specification.

“Rayshon Reese is a convicted rapist who was clearly not rehabilitated," said Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O'Malley in a statement. "Thankfully, this courageous w

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