Significant Sentencings: Julio Basurto and Matthew Coble

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Cwa_info@arlingtonva.us

ARLINGTON, VA, Feb. 10, 2025: Friday afternoon, Feb. 7, 2025, Matthew Coble and Julio Basurto were sentenced and their convictions became final.

Matthew Coble: On July 13, 2023, an Arlington County jury found Matthew Coble guilty of Aggravated Sexual Battery for an offense that occurred on July 24, 2020. Following his conviction, a second victim came forward after seeing a press release from the our Office. That victim, who was 14 years old at the time of the assault, disclosed that Coble had supplied her with alcohol and coerced her into sexual activity in 2020. As a result of the second case, Coble pleaded guilty to Indecent Liberties with a Minor, and both victims provided impact statements at a joint sentencing hearing.

The Commonwealth sought a sentence above the high end of the guidelines, which ranged from 2 years and 7 months to 13 years and 5 months. The Honorable Daniel S. Fiore, II sentenced Coble to seven years of active incarceration. He will be a registered sex offender and faces additional suspended prison time and supervised probation, with conditions to be determined following further psychological evaluation.

Julio Basurto, Jr.: In January of 2024, an Arlington County jury convicted Julio Basurto of forcible sodomy, object sexual penetration, and two counts of abduction with intent to defile. Basurto preyed on intoxicated women leaving bars in Clarendon in 2021 and 2023, posing as a rideshare driver to lure his victims into his vehicle.
In October 2021, the first victim, A.C., reported waking up in an unfamiliar car with no memory of the assault. The investigation stalled until May 2023, when a second victim, C.B., reported a strikingly similar experience. She entered a vehicle she believed to be an Uber, and was forcibly assaulted before being abandoned. Surveillance footage linked both incidents to Basurto’s vehicle. A forensic search of Basurto’s phone uncovered an encrypted video of A.C. unconscious in his car, being sexually assaulted by Basurto. Additional evidence revealed that after the 2023 assault, Basurto searched for Arlington County police reports and listened to police dispatch communications. Cell tower evidence confirmed his location at the time of the second assault.

On Feb. 9, 2025, the Honorable Daniel Tomas Crowe Lopez sentenced Julio Basurto. The Commonwealth sought a life sentence. Judge Lopez imposed a prison sentence of 140 years with all but 30 years suspended. Basurto will be on five years of supervised probation upon release.

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