Spring Valley Man Convicted of Putting $3,000 Bounty On Daughter’s Boyfriend

The Spring Valley father who was arrested in March and , was convicted Friday of the charge for offering a $3,000 "dead or alive" bounty on his La Mesa daughter's boyfriend.

Domingos Oliveira, 49, was also convicted on making a criminal threat against the boyfriend Sean Kirk, who is a registered sex offender.

Kirk, 33, had been dating Oliveira's daughter Samantha, 20. He told police that he had received several threatening emails and text messages from Oliveira, after the defendent found out about the relationship earlier this year.

The victim said that he was in class one day at Grossmont College, when a teacher said that there were "bounty posters" all over campus that read "dead or alive," and pointed out that Kirk was a sex offender.

Kirk admitted to being a registered sex offender for having had sex with a minor whom he thought was 18. After the posters were discovered, he and Samantha Oliveira notified police, who came to Oliveira's home on Roadside Place in Spring Valley on March 25, and arrested him, according to La Mesa police.

Police found a copy of the wanted poster on Oliveira's computer.

Oliveira to the charges in late March.

Samantha Oliveira testified that her father was a racist who frequently made threats against her boyfriends.

Oliveira faces up to 12 years and eight months in prison when he is sentenced Aug. 1, said Deputy District Attorney Curtis Ross.

City News Service contributed to this report.