| For Immediate Release Case # 10HF0734
January 25, 2012 |
Susan Kang Schroeder Chief of Staff Office: 714-347-8408 Cell: 714-292-2718 Farrah Emami |
FOUR MEN CONVICTED AND SENTENCED FOR
YEAR-LONG ATM THEFT CONSPIRACY USING
STOLEN TRUCKS AND FORKLIFT
SANTA ANA – Four men were convicted and sentenced yesterday for a $400,000 conspiracy to steal Automated Teller Machines (ATM) using two stolen trucks and a stolen forklift. Richard Dwayne Bockman, 43, Yucca Valley, Ricky Joe Coffey, 44, Orange, Curtis Edward Weber, 38, Anaheim, and Charles Earl Roberts, 41, Riverside, pleaded guilty to a court offer Jan. 24, 2012, over the objection of the People, who argued for greater prison sentences based on the seriousness, sophistication, and pre-planning of the crimes.
Roberts was sentenced to three years in state prison, Coffey and Weber were sentenced to seven years in state prison, and Bockman was sentenced to 10 years in state prison.
All four defendants pleaded guilty to four felony counts of grand theft, two felony counts each of arson, commercial burglary, and vandalism, and one felony count each of conspiracy to commit an unlawful taking of a motor vehicle, conspiracy to commit grand theft, conspiracy to commit arson, and the unlawful taking of a motor vehicle. They admitted to the sentencing enhancements for causing over $200,000 in loss.
Coffey admitted to additional sentencing enhancements and allegations for having a prior unlawful taking of a motor vehicle conviction in 1994, for being convicted and imprisoned on two separate occasions and not remaining free for a period of five years for a 1994 conviction for possession of stolen property and a 2005 conviction for identity theft, and for crime-bail-crime, meaning that he was out of custody on bail on another criminal case at the time of this crime.
Bockman pleaded guilty to additional felony counts including one count each of attempted grand theft, vandalism and the unlawful taking of a motor vehicle. He admitted to the sentencing enhancements and allegations for being convicted and imprisoned on six separate occasions and not remaining free for five years for 1992 and 1996 unlawful taking of a motor vehicle convictions, transportation of methamphetamine in 1995, possession of substances to manufacture drugs in 1999, and possession of methamphetamine and possession of stolen property in 2005, and for crime-bail-crime.
Weber pleaded guilty to an additional felony count for the possession of methamphetamine for sale. He admitted to sentencing enhancements and allegations for a prior conviction for possession of methamphetamine for sale in 2004, being convicted and imprisoned on five separate occasions and not remaining free for a period of five years for possession of methamphetamine convictions in 1997, 1999, 2001, and 2003, and two separate crime-bail-crimes.