Posted on 01/05/2010 4:48:09 PM PST by csvset
OAKLAND -- The nephew of former Oakland City Administrator Deborah Edgerly was sentenced today to a year of home detention on a weapons charge and ordered not to associate with gang members.
William Lovan, 28, of Antioch, whose 2008 arrest prompted an investigation that eventually contributed to Edgerly's firing, pleaded no contest in October to a charge of carrying a concealed firearm in a vehicle.
Lovan, who did not own the handgun, was also placed on five years' probation by Judge Morris Jacobson of Alameda County Superior Court.
In exchange for Lovan's plea, prosecutors dropped a charge of carrying a loaded firearm and an enhancement alleging that he participated in a criminal gang.
Jacobson ordered Lovan not to associate with gang members or participate in gang activity. Lovan works for the city of Oakland as a parking-meter repairman, the same job he held when he was arrested.
He is allowed to go to and from work as part of his sentence. Police found the handgun June 7, 2008, in a Chrysler Sebring belonging to Lovan's girlfriend, said Deputy District Attorney John Brouhard.
The car, which Lovan had been driving, was parked outside a liquor store near 12th and Market streets in West Oakland. Lovan was inside the store. Police, who arrived on the scene as part of an anti-gang operation, were preparing to tow the vehicle when Edgerly showed up, authorities said.
She called Assistant Police Chief Howard Jordan, who told her that her nephew was part of a larger investigation and that she should leave.
Less than two weeks later, Lovan was one of several dozen people arrested in raids on suspicion of being members of the Acorn gang in West Oakland. Lovan turned up on several wiretapped phone conversations,
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Not bad, considering it's the Obama Economy.
Amazing.
Gang member with two felony gun charges KEEPS HIS GOVERNMENT JOB!
This country is so screwed.
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