Palm Springs photographer gets year for sexual assault

A photographer from Palm Springs was sentenced to a year in jail after pleading no contest to sexual assault-related charges, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office.

John Everette Perry, 35, was sentenced on Dec. 1 in Los Angeles County Superior Court, district attorney's office spokeswoman Jane Robison said Thursday. She didn't know when he entered his no-contest plea.

Perry was convicted on one felony count of oral copulation of a person under 18 and two misdemeanor counts of battery. In addition to a year in jail, he will be on probation for five years.

He was arrested Sept. 25, 2013, in Los Angeles.

Perry was accused of approaching two people a day earlier and asking if they were interested in modeling. After expressing interest, the victims were lured into secluded areas and assaulted, Los Angeles police officials said.

In the first incident, Perry approached a 16-year-old boy in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles at 7:30 a.m. and lured him to his vehicle.

In the second incident, Perry was spotted inside an Atwater Village Starbucks in the 2900 block of Los Feliz Boulevard about 8:15 a.m., where he approached a 25-year-old man, told him he was a photographer and lured him to the bathroom.

Police arrested Perry at his home on Villaggio in Palm Springs. He was released after posting $75,000 bail.