Overview
- Pena reversed course mid-hearing Wednesday in Suffolk Superior Court, withdrawing a planned guilty plea and stunning Alenny Matos’ relatives.
- The abandoned agreement would have counted roughly five years of time served and positioned him for release within months followed by probationary monitoring.
- He remains in custody and now heads to a jury trial next week on two other cases, with potential life in prison if he is convicted.
- In total, he faces 11 charges across three cases involving four alleged victims, including kidnapping, rape, assault, and photographing women while they were unconscious.
- The count linked to Matos alleges disinterring or moving a body, not murder, and is not expected to go before a jury; her remains were found in May 2020 in a trash bag at Hyde Park’s Stony Brook Reservation.