A 28-year-old Dallas man will spend more than eight years behind bars after pleading no contest to raping a woman behind a local Safeway supermarket in 2024, a case that unraveled after DNA evidence collected from the victim matched his own. Jacob Allen Tunget was sentenced to 100 months in prison, the mandatory minimum under Oregon's Ballot Measure 11, followed by 140 months of post-prison supervision and a lifetime requirement to register as a sex offender.
According to KPTV, Tunget pleaded no contest to first-degree rape, and investigators say he was arrested only after DNA samples collected from the victim were matched to his own. The Polk County District Attorney's office said Tunget will serve more than eight years behind bars in connection with the rape investigation, which centered on an assault that happened behind the Safeway supermarket in Dallas, Oregon, in 2024.
The 100-month prison term is not a judge's discretionary call. Under Oregon Revised Statutes § 137.700, a first-degree rape conviction under Measure 11 carries a fixed mandatory minimum of 100 months, and the law bars judges from shortening the term or granting early release for good behavior. That statutory floor is why Tunget is ineligible for any sentence reduction, regardless of his conduct behind bars.
Why the Supervision Term Runs 140 Months
Tunget's post-prison supervision period is also dictated by formula rather than judicial discretion. Under Oregon Revised Statutes § 144.103, anyone convicted of first-degree rape must serve an active supervision term that, combined with time already served in prison, adds up to the 240-month statutory maximum for a Class A felony. Subtract Tunget's 100-month prison sentence from that 240-month ceiling, and the remaining 140 months of mandatory supervision follow automatically once he is released.
Because Tunget entered a no-contest plea to a single count, the case avoided a far steeper mandatory sentence that Oregon law reserves for repeat offenders. Under ORS § 137.690, a defendant with a prior conviction for a major felony sex crime would have faced a mandatory minimum of 25 years, or 300 months, for the same offense.
A History of Arrests in Dallas Before the Rape Case
Court and arrest records reviewed by Polk County court filings show Tunget had already crossed paths with local law enforcement more than once before his rape conviction. He was arrested on July 15, 2024, for a probation violation tied to an earlier strangulation charge, then arrested again on November 14, 2024, on Ellendale Avenue in Dallas on charges of strangulation and fourth-degree assault. Those prior cases point to an escalating pattern of domestic violence allegations in the same jurisdiction where the rape occurred.
Once released from prison, Tunget will be required to register as a sex offender under Oregon Revised Statutes § 163A.010. Whether his case eventually becomes public information depends on his assigned risk level: only Level 3, the highest-risk classification, is published on the Oregon State Police public sex offender website, while lower-risk registrants remain outside public view.
Local Prosecution and Community Context
The case was handled by the Polk County District Attorney's office, led by Aaron Felton, who has served as district attorney since January 2013 overseeing a 25-person office responsible for prosecuting major felonies and sex crimes across Dallas and the rest of Polk County. Dallas is the county seat, sitting along Rickreall Creek roughly 15 miles west of Salem, with an estimated population of about 17,531 residents. Countywide, Polk County recorded a population of 90,037 in 2025.
Data from the ERI Economic Research Institute puts Dallas's overall crime rate at 2.34%, with violent crimes such as murder, robbery, and aggravated assault accounting for a 0.26% rate. Tunget's sentencing also comes amid Oregon's broader Measure 11 framework, which voters adopted in November 1994 to impose mandatory minimum prison terms for 21 violent and sexual offenses while stripping away earned-time credits for good behavior — the same rigid structure that fixed both Tunget's prison term and his years of mandatory supervision.
Hoodline previously reported on a Dallas man's 50-year sentence for a separate multi-count sex offense case also prosecuted by the Polk County District Attorney's office, underscoring how the county's felony sex-crime caseload has drawn repeated scrutiny in recent months.
