OAKLAND — A Harmony man prevented federal jail after prosecutors satisfied a decide he had “excelled” whereas on pretrial launch in a custody different program, courtroom data present.
Chris Bezucha, 28, was arrested two years in the past and charged with being a felon in possession of an AM-15 rifle. However he was launched to a program in Oakland in lieu of pretrial detention.
In a sentencing memo, prosecutors made the bizarre transfer of praising Bezucha’s “significantly spectacular” conduct whereas out of jail and requested for no extra custody time. His lawyer wrote in a memo that Bezucha was scuffling with drug habit when he was arrested in 2020.
Bezucha was arrested after a site visitors cease that led police to look the Harmony trailer the place he was dwelling and discover the rifle. He wasn’t allowed to own weapons due to a previous assault conviction, data present.
“You'll be able to’t go backwards at this level,” Bezucha advised a probation officer, in keeping with a protection sentencing memo. “You solely get so many probabilities to do what I'm doing right here and I'm not going to mess it up.”