A Greenfield man has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to the 2009 rape of a Salinas woman in a case that remained unsolved for more than a decade before DNA evidence identified him as the suspect, the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office announced Friday.

Prosecutors said Judge Jennifer J. O’Keefe sentenced 42-year-old Juan Antonio Garcia Jimenez on Thursday.

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