WHITE PLAINS – A Peekskill man faces a maximum of life in state prison after being convicted by a Westchester County Court jury on a charge of attempted rape in the first degree.

Cesar Urbina, 51, of 75 Hemlock Circle in Peekskill asked a female neighbor if he could stay at her apartment temporarily as he was locked out of his mother’s home. That was on June 9, 2009.

She let him in and he grabbed her from behind, placed his left hand over her mouth and held a kitchen knife to her throat and forced her onto her couch. She struggled and she begging him to stop the assault, at which point he relented, stayed in the apartment for a while and then left with the knife.

The following day, the victim told Peekskill Police about the attack and Urbina was arrested later that week.

He has a pending nearly identical case in New York County where he is alleged to have attempted to rape his grandmother’s home health aide. That crime was allegedly committed while he was out on $75,000 bail in the Westchester case.