East Bay man sentenced on federal gun charges

ANTIOCH An East Bay man was sentenced Tuesday to roughly years in federal prison for unlawful firearm possession prosecutors commented Related Articles Fremont police chief announces retirement after years Who should pay for Prop California s new tough-on-crime law Oakland investigators seeking help in years-old homicides Bay Area mall protection guard accused of assaulting teen Three arrested in connection with armed robbery in Oakland Timothy Demetrius Jeffrey of Antioch was convicted by a jury in March on two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition according to the U S Attorney s Office On April Jeffrey also known as Boo drove into a Pittsburg shopping center parking lot parked and tried to run from a pursuing police officer prosecutors announced adding that he tossed a Glock mm semiautomatic pistol with an extended magazine and rounds of ammunition over a fence before he was arrested Jeffrey absconded shortly after posting bond according to prosecutors But on March personnel detected and arrested him at a relative s home in Antioch During a search of the residence leadership determined an Aero Precision AR-style rifle with a magazine and rounds of ammunition under a couch prosecutors mentioned Functionaries also seized a cellphone used by Jeffrey It contained text messages in which he tried to sell the rifle according to prosecutors At the time of his April and March arrests Jeffrey was on supervised release following past convictions for being a felon in possession of a firearm escape from custody and conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance In addition to sentencing Jeffrey to months in prison a federal judge ordered the defendant to serve two years for violating the terms of his supervised release in the other cases prosecutors declared The two prison terms will be served concurrently