OAKLAND — A San Francisco man has been sentenced to 2 years in federal jail for possessing an assault rifle discovered within the entrance seat of a stolen automobile throughout a site visitors cease, court docket information present.
Jacobi Sanford, 26, was sentenced July 14 by U.S. District Choose Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. Sanford pleaded responsible to being a felon in possession of a firearm throughout the identical court docket listening to.
Sanford was arrested in July 2021 after a police surveillance staff noticed him in an space of 82nd Avenue in Oakland that prosecutors described as a “assembly spot” for 2 Bay Space gangs. They discovered an AM-15 rifle inside a stolen Dodge Charger outfitted with a fraudulent license plate, and authorities allege the Charger was linked to a number of dwelling burglaries, court docket information present.
Sanford’s lawyer, assistant public defender Graham Archer, wrote in court docket information that Sanford possessed the gun for self-defense, after a lifetime of witnessing gun violence and dropping family members to it. A protection sentencing memo contains help levers describing Sanford as a loving and caring member of the family who is able to “stroll a brand new path.”
“Rising up as a Black youth within the Bayview District of San Francisco, commonly witnessing violence, the deck has been stacked towards him since childhood,” Archer wrote. “Mr. Sanford has perception into the explanation he dedicated the moment offense, his worry of being killed and never being there for his daughter.”
Sanford has been in jail since final September, and that point will depend in direction of his jail sentence, information present.