Felon rides past SFPD gun crime cops with clearly visible firearm with predictable results
A violent felon who drew the attention of San Francisco police officers when he rode past them on a scooter with a gun sticking out of his pocket pleaded not guilty to gun charges in federal court today.
Donte Moore was arrested two blocks from San Francisco federal courthouse in the early afternoon of October 7 2024. Officers from SFPD’s Crime Gun Investigation Center – in what seems to be the easiest day’s work they’ve ever had – saw him roll past their car on Ellis Street with a weapon clearly visible.
After he was detained a search of the defendant’s hoody turned up a loaded Glock 17 equipped with an extended magazine.
At that point Moore, 35, told officers that he ought to have murdered them.
“I shoulda shot you niggas man,” he said, “I shoulda shot yo dumb ass.”
The defendant has “an almost unbroken chain of criminality spanning his entire adult life,” according to a detention motion filed by federal prosecutors. “He has consistently committed serious and violent crimes while under some form of court supervision,” they added.
In December 2022 Pittsburg Police found a loaded, unregistered gun in his car after he had been stopped for speeding. Convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm he was sentenced to 364 days in jail and two years’ probation in Contra Costa County. He was still on probation when arrested in his current case.
His “extensive and violent” criminal history also includes second degree robbery, battery and drug sales.
Perhaps seeing the writing on the wall, his attorney has not argued for his release and he has been in Santa Rita jail since federal prosecutors took over the case from their local counterparts in San Francisco.
Appearing today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixson, Moore pleaded ‘not guilty’ to a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
He will next appear before U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley on January 8 2025.
The case continues.
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