SAN FRANCISCO — An Oakland resident acquired no further jail time for possessing an assault rifle within the Westfield Mall in 2019, capping his sentence off on the week he spent in jail earlier than he was launched.
Ivan Angelo, 41, was sentenced by U.S. District Choose Susan Illston, who turned down a prosecution request for a two-year jail time period. Angelo’s legal professional argued that Angelo had confirmed himself to be accountable by staying out of hassle since he was indicted in March 2020, who wrote that with continued steerage, “he'll proceed to be a hit story.”
“He has stabilized each facet of his life and has demonstrated that he not solely desires to do proper, however he can do proper for a sustained time frame,” Assistant Federal Public Defender Jodi Linker wrote in a sentencing memo. “He has protected and secure housing; he has secure and profitable employment; he's in a wholesome and secure romantic relationship; and, he actively and constantly participates in productive and secure counseling and remedy companies.”
Angelo will likely be on supervised launch for 3 years.
Linker wrote that Angelo hadn’t violated his pretrial launch situations, however federal prosecutors wrote of their sentencing memo that Angelo had incurred 5 violations, the “most egregious” of which concerned intentionally taking off the battery on his ankle monitor for a day. In addition they wrote he had 14 arrests since 1994.
Angelo was arrested on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm in September 2019, whereas buying within the Polo division of Bloomingdales. He left a backpack on a show desk whereas making an attempt on a jacket, then left the world. An worker found the assault rifle contained in the backpack and known as police.