BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT
Daily Post Staff Writer
A man who robbed a mail carrier with a fake gun in Palo Alto has avoided jail time, court records show.
Trevionne Levar Williams, 19, of Sacramento, agreed to pay his victim $8,083 in restitution and go on three years of felony probation.
His probation was transferred to Sacramento County, court records show.
Williams is still facing charges in San Mateo County, where he allegedly robbed another postal worker on the same day with a 17-year-old accomplice.
The duo allegedly attacked a woman delivering mail on May 11 to an apartment complex in Belmont on the 700 block of Old County Road.
Williams allegedly grabbed the woman by the throat and threw her on the ground as she screamed, and then he took her fanny pack, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.
About an hour later, Williams and the teen robbed a mail carrier in his 60s on Ilima Court in the Barron Park neighborhood of Palo Alto, according to court records.
The 17-year-old pointed a fake gun at the mail carrier’s head as Williams grabbed him and shook him, police said.
Officers found their black Infiniti G37 leaving the neighborhood northbound on El Camino Real. But then officers tried to stop Williams, he fled into the Stanford Research Park and crashed into a tree in a private parking lot off Hansen Way, police said.
The car was allegedly stolen in Alameda on May 1 and had a license plate that was taken from a different car in Hayward the same day as the robberies.
The stolen license plate would allow Williams to avoid detection by license plate-reading cameras that police have installed throughout the Bay Area.
Officers found two mail keys and two fake guns at the site of the crash.
Williams ended up spending eight days in jail. He signed a plea deal on June 5 with Supervising Deputy District Attorney Sandip Patel, court records show.
The fate of the 17-year-old isn’t publicly known because he is a juvenile.
What a joke!!!
Wow! What do you have to do to get jailed in Santa Clara County? Armed robbery used to be a pretty sure thing, but apparently we are experiencing “crime inflation”.
This is exactly why we have repeat offenders. These punks should serve time and go into mandatory programming to learn about accountability . How about some job training
And then a work release program? These two will be out committing crimes again with this pathetic slap on the wrist. The state honestly makes me sick and it’s very sad for the community and even for the young men that need guidance and consequences.
Hey, DA Jeff Rosen — How many times would he have to rob a mailman before he spends anytime in prison? What are you accomplishing by letting this guy walk?