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SANTA ANA – from www.ocregister.com – An actor who played a shoe-throwing bad guy in the spy-spoof film “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery” goes on trial this week in the kidnap and sexual assault of a Huntington Beach woman in 1990.

Joseph Hyungmin Son, who also had a brief and unsuccessful career as a mixed martial arts fighter, was arrested in 2008 when his DNA reportedly was matched to the rape of a 20-year-old woman who was abducted off the street by two men as she was walking her dog after looking at holiday lights on Christmas Eve 1990.

The woman was pistol-whipped, repeatedly raped and threatened with a loaded gun as one of her assailants counted the bullets and told her she was going to die, according to Orange County prosecutors.

The men finally pushed the bruised and battered woman out of the car naked with a jacket tied around her head in Compton, telling her the release was their Christmas gift to her, according to court documents. She sought help at a nearby home and immediately reported the crime.

But no arrests were made for years, until Son, who is now 39, was arrested and imprisoned in 2008 for violating his parole on an unrelated felony vandalism conviction.

That arrest allowed authorities to extract his DNA profile under the terms of Prop. 69, which compels all defendants convicted of felonies or misdemeanors to provide a sample of their DNA.

When Son’s DNA was submitted to a state database, it was quickly matched to the DNA recovered during a rape examination of the 20-year-old woman kidnapped from Huntington Beach 17 years earlier, prosecutors said.

Son initially was charged with multiple sexual assault and kidnapping counts, plus penalty enhancements for kidnapping, gun use and great bodily injury to a sexual assault victim. He faced a maximum sentence of 275 years in prison if convicted.

But many of those charges were dropped in part because the statute of limitations had expired. He now faces trial on two charges: conspiracy to commit murder and torture, which carry life terms in prison upon conviction, according to Deputy District Attorney Eric Scarbrough.

Jury selection in Superior Court Judge Francisco Briseno’s courtroom began Tuesday. Son’s trial should last about one week.

Santiago Gaitan, 40, Son’s co-defendant, was arrested in 2009 after he, too, was linked to the assault. He pleaded guilty to multiple sex crimes in January 2011, and was sentenced to prison for 17 years and four months.

Son, who went by the fighting moniker “Joe Son,” was cast as “Random Task” in the 1997 Mike Myers “Austin Powers” film, which was a popular spoof of the James Bond films.

“Random Task” was a takeoff of “Odd Job,” the unsmiling heavy who throws his metal-lined bowler hat to slice the head off a statue in “Goldfinger,” starring Sean Connery as James Bond.

In “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery,” the Random Task character throws a shoe at Myers, who plays Austin Powers, before Random Task is subdued by Elizabeth Hurley with a bottle of champagne.