A 55-year-old Solano man was sentenced Thursday to 27 years to life in state jail for theft and assault at a pot develop website in 2017 in rural Vacaville.
Mark Alan Graham heard Solano County Superior Court docket Decide William J. Pendergast hand down the punishment throughout a morning continuing in Division 11 within the Justice Heart in Fairfield.
Court docket data present that, after a four-day trial in mid-September 2021, jurors convicted Graham of theft, tried theft, assault with a firearm, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. The jury additionally discovered true the allegation that Graham used a firearm inflicting nice bodily damage in the course of the theft.
In accordance with court docket paperwork, on Sept. 19, 2017, Graham, together with co-defendant Matthew Michael Quinn, went onto a rural property on Gates Canyon Street, off Pleasants Valley Street, to rob the house owners of their marijuana.
Graham and Quinn wore masks to hide their id and impersonated deputies from the Solano County Sheriff’s Workplace. Underneath the guise of being regulation enforcement officers, the 2 victims, working as safety officers on the property, have been ordered out of their tents and restrained.
One of many victims suffered accidents because of being shot within the leg whereas being restrained.
Graham was arrested almost two years after the crime, on Aug. 22, 2019, within the 200 block of Woodhaven Drive in Vacaville, and the Solano County District Lawyer’s Workplace filed its grievance on Aug. 26.
He'll stay in custody with out bail within the Claybank Detention Facility in Fairfield till he's transported to a jail operated by the California Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
It's unclear if Quinn was arrested on the identical time and place, however the DA filed its grievance towards him on the identical time. On-line data obtainable to the general public didn't enumerate the costs towards him, itemizing the case solely as a felony.
Pendergast has ordered Quinn, 36, who's out of custody and appeared in Division 11 on March 21 for a earlier preliminary listening to setting, to return for the continuing and a readiness convention at 8:30 a.m. April 29. He's represented by the Solano County Public Defender.
Detective Charles Olmstead of the Solano County Sheriff’s Division investigated the case. Deputy District Lawyer Hunter Burnette led the prosecution.