OAKLAND — A 28-year-old man who was armed when a U.S. Marshals activity pressure got here to arrest him on suspicion of tried homicide final yr was sentenced Tuesday to 3 years and 4 months in federal jail, court docket information present.
Juan Jesus Chaidez, 28, admitted in a plea settlement to possessing a Glock pistol discovered through the search of a room on the Prolonged Keep America Lodge at 4555 Chabot Highway in Pleasanton, the place Chaidez was staying final October when the duty pressure picked him up. He was needed in reference to a September 2020 shootout the place he was struck by gunfire a number of occasions and left for useless, in response to court docket information.
Prosecutors say that on the day of the taking pictures, Chaidez confronted a lady exiting a parked automobile on the 9300 block of Empire Highway in Oakland, brandished a pistol, and struck her with it. A person with the girl took out his personal gun, and each started firing at one another, at shut vary. Chaidez was struck seven occasions, and the opposite man stomped on his head a couple of occasions earlier than he and the girl drove off, in response to the felony criticism.
Even supposing he was critically wounded, Chaidez was charged with tried homicide, authorities mentioned in court docket information.
Chaidez’s lawyer, assistant federal public defender Jerome Matthews, wrote in a sentencing memo that Chaidez gew up in an abusive family within the “Soiled 30s” Oakland neighborhood, which he described as “a violent, high-crime space the place shootings are frequent.”
“Regardless of the challenges he has confronted, Mr. Chaidez has the potential to show his life round. Apparently, his parole agent, his county probation officer, and even a housing unit Deputy Sheriff at Santa Rita jail all concur,” Matthews wrote. “Most telling, maybe, is Deputy Sheriff Greg McLean’s statement that Mr Chaidez is a compliant, non-disruptive inmate who was ‘simply dealt a foul hand’ early in life, however nonetheless ‘has an actual likelihood at being rehabilitated.’”
Chaidez sued Santa Rita Jail in Dublin final June, alleging that he suffered a severe an infection that was the results of poor medical care. A choose threw out the swimsuit final week, writing in an order that Chaidez hadn’t stored the court docket updated on his present tackle — although he’s remained on the jail because the swimsuit was filed — and since Chaidez “didn't prosecute this matter” after the preliminary submitting.