A Duluth man who was convicted by a St. Louis County jury of sexually assaulting a woman he met at a city bus stop was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison.
James Calvin Tucker, 44, was found guilty in April of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. Jurors deliberated only about 2½ hours in reaching the verdict.
Judge Shaun Floerke sentenced Tucker to 144 months in prison and ordered him to submit a DNA sample to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension database.
Tucker has had 42 criminal cases against him in three Minnesota counties for theft, assault and other crimes.
According to the criminal complaint, the victim told Duluth police that she was at a bus stop on Jan. 28 when a man later identified as Tucker and two other people started talking to her. She said she joined them on the bus because they offered to pay her fare.
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The woman said she and the three others wound up at a Lincoln Park apartment that was not her residence. Two people departed, leaving her there with Tucker. She said Tucker grabbed her hair and forced himself on her.
She said some people arrived at the apartment and when Tucker went to the door, she fled through a window.
Criminal cases for assault, violating orders of protection, theft, offering forged checks and disorderly conduct, among others, have been filed against Tucker in Dakota, Hennepin and St. Louis counties.
