SAN FRANCISCO — Three Contra Costa males have been sentenced to probation and jail in reference to what prosecutors referred to as an “extraordinarily critical” gun trafficking ring that resulted in dozens of firearms being seized.
Troy Elias Walker was sentenced to a few years in federal jail, whereas his co-defendants David Michael Rembert and Dajit Kamal Singh every bought five-year probation phrases, court docket information present. The sentences have been handed down in August by U.S. District Decide Jon Tigar, however haven't been beforehand reported.
In undercover purchases and raids, federal authorities seized 86 firearms through the investigation of the three defendants, prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo. In addition they discovered Instagram messages the place Walker is alleged to have supplied a $1,500 bounty for an individual who stole one among his weapons, writing that he needed to “kill him and his complete household and eat cereal in his mattress,” prosecutors stated.
“The offense conduct right here is extraordinarily critical,” assistant U.S. Lawyer Abraham High quality wrote in a sentencing memo for the defendants. “Not solely have been many of those weapons untraceable, Defendants additionally bought gadgets that elevated the lethality of weapons by making them totally automated.”
The three pleaded responsible to gun trafficking conspiracy final April.
Singh — a former U.S. Air Pressure enlistee who dropped out throughout primary coaching — wrote a prolonged apology letter to the court docket by which he stated he was relieved to have been caught.
“I don’t intend to ever contact a firearm or any sort of ammunition ever once more,” he wrote. “I want I may return and never do any of it. Despite the fact that it resulted in my arrest, I'm relieved that the weapons I bought have been to brokers. It’s a blessing the weapons have been taken off the streets.”
Rembert’s lawyer, Hanni Fakhoury, wrote in a sentencing memo that Rembert dropping his Second Modification rights, struggling a felony conviction, and spending two months in jail earlier than being launched on home arrest was sufficient to discourage him from future crimes.
“He has been punished sufficient for his silly actions, and his prosecution sends a loud and clear message that anybody who thinks they will illegally promote firearms to make a fast greenback will obtain a stiff punishment,” Fakhoury wrote.