OAKLAND — An Antioch man was sentenced to 5 years in federal jail for possessing a loaded pistol whereas he had an energetic warrant for violating his parole, courtroom data present.
Johnny Madden, 27, was sentenced in late Might by U.S. District Decide Jeffrey White, in response to courtroom data. He pleaded responsible in February to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
The cost stemmed from a July 2020 arrest when Antioch police pulled Madden over in a Lexus SUV. He gave them the pretend title “Gregory Buckskin” however they found out his actual id and located a .45 caliber pistol in his possession, in response to prosecutors.
Madden has a prolonged felony file that features a 2013 incident the place he stabbed his girlfriend, who was pregnant with twins. In 2016, he was charged — and in the end convicted — of housebreaking whereas on parole for the stabbing incident. In 2018, he was convicted of home violence for bodily abusing the identical sufferer, courtroom data present.
Madden’s lawyer wrote that he participated in a 13-month rehabilitation program and that he deserves leniency for surviving “a very inappropriate childhood throughout which there was typically no dependable grownup.”
“He was intoxicated for many, if not all, of his felony historical past. He has had a troublesome life, and he's nonetheless younger,” assistant public defender John Paul Reichmuth wrote in a sentencing memo.