SAN FRANCISCO — A Oakley resident pleaded responsible Tuesday to being a felon in possession of a firearm, the identical gun he used to rob a Bay Space rapper in 2019.
Kelvin “40 Kal” Burton, 26, pleaded responsible in a distant courtroom listening to earlier than U.S. District Decide Susan Illston. The cost carries as much as 10 years in jail however federal prosecutors agreed to hunt a comparatively low-end sentence in trade for the responsible plea. It will likely be as much as Illston to find out his sentence, at an April courtroom listening to.
Burton was indicted final July, in keeping with courtroom data.
As a part of the settlement, Burton admitted prosecutors may show that he robbed an up-and-coming Bay Space on Dec. 20, 2019. Prosecutors say he met the sufferer at a Richmond jewellery retailer, provided to promote him marijuana, and drove to residences on the 100 block of Garrison Avenue in San Francisco, pulled a pistol from the automotive, compelled the sufferer to drag up his shirt and show he wasn’t carrying a wire, the stole a Gucci backpack, a diamond chain, and a watch that was cumulatively value an estimated $25,000.
In the course of the drive, the sufferer filmed Burton and posted the video to his Instagram account, displaying Burton displaying a gold chain that learn “Don’t Slip Blood Brothers.” This newspaper isn’t naming the sufferer, and his rap profession has since ended.
Prosecutors alleged Burton is a member of a San Francisco gang that originated within the metropolis’s Geneva Towers residences, however whose members have moved all through the Bay Space because of the condominium buildings’ destruction and gentrification.
Burton’s DNA was discovered on the gun throughout a search of his Oakley house in February 2020, and that an ankle monitor positioned him on the scene of the theft. In December 2020, Burton was arrested with one other pistol after a police chase in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood, and in the end acquired seven months in jail, prosecutors mentioned in a courtroom movement.
In each situations, the weapons had been .40 caliber pistols, and prosecutors argue that’s no coincidence.
“His very nickname, ’40 Kal,’ is a tribute to his affinity for .40 caliber handguns,” assistant U.S. Lawyer Andrew Paulson wrote in courtroom papers.