KALAMAZOO, Mich. — A Livonia man is expected to spend time in prison after he pleaded guilty to multiple sexual assault charges.
Cameron Alvarez, 34, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in Kalamazoo. As part of the plea agreement, Alvarez will serve a minimum of 12 years in prison and be subject to lifetime electronic monitoring following his sentence.
The charges stem back to multiple incidents in 2010 on the campus of Western Michigan University (WMU).
Alvarez was previously charged in 2022.
Authorities say these incidents happened in 2010, when Alvarez was a sophomore attending WMU. He allegedly arranged to meet up with an 18-year-old woman he met at an off-campus party, where he proceeded to assault her "almost immediately upon entering her dorm room," authorities say.
While the woman did have a sexual assault kit completed, she did not press charges, and the kit was not submitted for testing.
It was when state officials began testing a backlog of sexual assault kits in 2016 that the case was assigned to a unit with the Kalamazoo County Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI).
During that investigation, six other women came forward with sexual assault allegations against Alvarez, spanning from 2009 to 2014 in Oakland, Kalamazoo, and Ingham counties.
“In Michigan, our SAKI units regularly earn convictions on often difficult investigations and prosecutions of cold-case sexual assaults,” said Nessel. “Their work is tireless and admirable, though impossible without the courage of victims who come forward and demand justice.”
“Cameron Alvarez’s lengthy prison sentence is a well-deserved end to his multiple sexual assaults,” said Kalamazoo County Prosecuting Attorney Jeffrey S. Getting. “The work being done here in Kalamazoo, with the help and support of the Attorney General’s Office, on behalf of sexual assault survivors is amazing. With each conviction we make the State a safer place.”
Alvarez will be sentenced on Monday, Sept. 16 at 8:30 a.m.
