MARTINEZ — Simply forward of trial the place one was dealing with homicide expenses, two alleged San Francisco gang members accepted plea offers for 19 and 13 years in jail, information present.
Rasace Leon Fiapoto, 24, pleaded no contest to manslaughter, assault with a lethal weapon, and gun possession, whereas his co-defendant, Reco Maximo, 23, pleaded no contest to theft. A 3rd defendant, 27-year-old Michael Pon, nonetheless has an energetic warrant for his arrest.
The plea offers, reached final 12 months, got here simply earlier than jury choice was set to begin in Fiapoto and Maximo’s trials.
Fiapoto was accused of killing 25-year-old Scipio Spears in a 2017 capturing on the 900 block of West tenth Road. In Antioch. He, Pon, and Maximo have been additionally charged with conspiring to rob the Oakland department of the Lola Lola hashish dispensary in Could 2020.
Prosecutors allege that they held the supervisor at gunpoint, pressured him to the ground of the enterprise, flashed gang indicators, and made off in two getaway vehicles with $300,000 price of marijuana, electronics, and money.
The charging information alleged that the killing of Spears and the theft have been dedicated to profit a San Francisco gang that federal prosecutors have alleged was concerned in a violent feud with one other gang that led to a number of shootings in late April 2020, together with a freeway capturing that killed Rascae Fiapoto’s cousin, Reno Fiapoto, courtroom information present.
In courtroom filings final 12 months, federal prosecutors attributed the April 28 killing of an alleged gang rival, Oakland resident Henry Texada, to the feud. The following day, they stated, Reno Fiapoto, 20, was struck and killed by gunfire as he drove on the west finish of the Bay Bridge on Interstate 80.
Within the weeks after Fiapoto was killed, his gravesite at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma grew to become a goal for violence, the filings say, including that Colma police investigated “a number of shootings and different prison conduct” there in June and July. The next investigation resulted in federal gun expenses towards folks on each side of the battle.