A 21-year-old who pleaded no contest to felony charges for his role in a 2017 armed robbery of a 78-year woman was sentenced to two years, eight months in state prison Wednesday, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.
Though Kumari Johnson faced three years, eight months prison for his convictions, his defense attorney asked Judge Stephanie Garratt to consider probation, noting he was accepted into the San Francisco-based Delancey Street program, which focuses on treating substance abuse. Garratt denied probation and sentenced him to prison, according to prosecutors.
With accomplice Collee Taylor, Johnson is believed to have stolen the purses of a 78-year-old woman and her 45-year-old daughter at gunpoint as they were walking to a Lucky Supermarket in Foster City Oct. 7, 2017. Taylor and Johnson are said to have then jumped into a gray Volvo, which was driven by an additional suspect, according to prosecutors and police previously.
The car was seen later by an off-duty Foster City police officer who saw Johnson and Taylor in the car along with Oakland resident Ellesse McFee. The officer followed the trio to Hayward, where they stopped the car and went into a Food Source store on Mission Boulevard. Though McFee and Taylor were arrested inside the store, Johnson eluded arrest and was taken into custody later, according to prosecutors and police previously.
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The women’s purses were found inside the car and their money was found on McFee and Taylor upon their arrest. An employee of the grocery store found a loaded semi-automatic handgun under a box of ramen noodles in the store, according to prosecutors.
On Oct. 31, Taylor, 20, pleaded no contest to felony robbery and was sentenced to two years state prison, and the case against McFee was dismissed after she was murdered in Oakland at the age of 21 this summer, according to prosecutors.
Johnson will receive 322 days credit for time served, according to prosecutors.
His defense attorney Adriana Eberle could not be immediately reached for comment.
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