MAN GETS MORE PRISON TIME NO-CONTEST PLEAS IN DRIVE-BY ATTACK, CAR CHASE.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - A reputed white supremacist white supremacist n. One who believes that white people are racially superior to others and should therefore dominate society. white supremacy n. Noun 1. faces more than 50 years in prison after admitting he tried to kill an African-American man walking along a Lancaster street and the next day shot at deputies during a car chase. Brian Tobias, 28, was sentenced Thursday to more than 16 years in prison, which he must serve in addition to a sentence of more than 34 years he was sentenced to after being convicted last July of other charges stemming from the chase. ``He won't get out of prison until he's over 70 years old, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. my calculations,'' Deputy District Attorney Hayden Zacky said Thursday. ``I think he was basically in fear of getting sentenced to life in prison. He knows he has a shot of getting out this way.'' Tobias pleaded no contest Thursday in Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Superior Court to two counts of assault with a firearm on a peace officer for the July 3, 2003, car chase. He also pleaded no contest to attempted murder for the July 2, 2003, drive-by shooting drive-by shooting Public health A phenomenon in which one or more persons–commonly members of street gangs, open fire à la Al Capone from moving vehicles, often in retaliation for an alleged wrong-doing by a rival gang of an African-American man walking along a Lancaster street. Tobias was sentenced to 16 years and eight months in prison for shooting at deputies and five years in prison for the drive-by shooting, in which he was accused of being the gunman's driver. The five-year sentence is to be served at the same time as the other sentences, Zacky said. Tobias was convicted last July of exhibiting a deadly weapon deadly weapon n. any weapon which can kill. This includes not only weapons which are intended to do harm like a gun or knife, but also blunt instruments like clubs, baseball bats, monkey wrenches, an automobile or any object which actually causes death. to a police officer, resisting arrest resisting arrest n. the crime of using physical force (no matter how slight in the eyes of most law enforcement officers) to prevent arrest, handcuffing and/or taking the accused to jail. and other charges in connection with the chase, but jurors deadlocked 11-1 in favor of guilty on two counts of attempted murder of a peace officer. Tobias entered his pleas a day before he was going to be retried re·tried v. Past tense and past participle of retry. on the attempted murder charges. Prosecutors said Tobias set off the chase the day after the drive-by shooting when a sheriff's deputy tried to pull him over in a stolen 1984 Honda. Other deputies joined in the 10-mile chase from Palmdale into the desert west of Lake Los Angeles. Deputies captured Tobias and freed a woman passenger unharmed. Authorities said Tobias dragged the woman out of the car by her hair and used her as a human shield human shield Forensic medicine A person used to protect a kidnapper, terrorist, or combatant from gunfire while putting a gun to her head. A co-defendant in the drive-by shooting was sentenced in December to eight years in prison after pleading no contest to attempted murder and admitted the shooting was motivated by the victim's race. The victim, a 31-year-old man who had been wounded while walking near 35th Street West and Avenue K-8 on his way home from a relative's home, identified Kelly as the gunman. Michael Kelly, 20, of Lancaster was arrested a week after the drive-by shooting after a nine-hour standoff with sheriff's deputies at a house in Quartz Hill. Karen Maeshiro, (661) 267-5744 karen.maeshiro(at)dailynews.com |
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