Joe Son's mugshot

The actor, Joe Son, played Random Work in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, a 1997 film.  He plead guilty in January of violently raping a woman in a 1990 incident after giving a DNA sample in an unrelated case.

His cellmate was a sex offender, according to the Times.

They report:

[Son] had arrived at the prison reception center Sept. 16 after having been convicted of torture and sentenced to life in prison without parole in connection with the 1990 Christmas Eve rape of a woman out walking her dog.

Prosecutors in the torture case said the woman was walking back to her apartment alone with her dog after going to look at Christmas lights with a relative and friend and was stopped by Son about 12:30 a.m. on Christmas Eve 1990.

Son asked her for directions and then, with another man, dragged her to a car, threw her in the back and drove away.

Son and the other man told her they were driving to Compton, pistol-whipped her and repeatedly threatened to kill her.

Son's cohort, Santiago Lopez Gaitan, 40, of San Antonio, raped the woman, prosecutors said.

Afterward, Son threatened to kill the victim and counted the bullets in the gun out loud as she pleaded for her life.

Read the full story at the Los Angeles Times.