A woman who was the getaway driver in the robbery of two customers outside a La Mesa grocery store has been released from jail after undergoing a diagnostic study at a women’s penitentiary.
Reynisha Ann Bransford, 24, of San Diego, was given credit for serving 469 days in custody and was placed on four years probation by San Diego Superior Court Judge Timothy Walsh. She was fined $1,763.
A woman who was the getaway driver in the robbery of two customers outside a La Mesa grocery store has been released from jail after undergoing a diagnostic study at a women’s penitentiary.
Reynisha Ann Bransford, 24, of San Diego, was given credit for serving 469 days in custody and was placed on four years probation by San Diego Superior Court Judge Timothy Walsh. She was fined $1,763.
Bransford had no prior record, but her boyfriend, Brian Quinn Coats, 23, had a prior vandalism conviction involving a smoke shop store in East County for which he had unpaid restitution. Walsh sentenced him earlier to two years and eight months in prison.
Both pleaded guilty to stealing a purse March 6 from a woman in the Von’s parking lot on Lake Murray in La Mesa. They also pleaded guilty to attempted robbery of a man outside the store and to three robberies of three UCSD students.
Two Lakeside women sentenced after pleading guilty to possession
Two Lakeside women have been sentenced to 84 days already spent in jail after they pleaded guilty to possession of methamphetamine for sale in a house that was later declared uninhabitable due to meth residue.
Sheriff’s deputies served a search warrant Aug. 25 at a house in the 12100 block of Wintercrest Drive and seized meth, marijuana, cash, ammunition, and drug paraphernalia. The residence was condemned after San Diego Hazmat responded.
El Cajon Superior Court Judge Daniel Goldstein placed Robin Faulkner, 53, and Kristina Duerksen, also known as Becky Kloos, 53, on three years probation. They were fined and released from jail.
Stockbroker to be sentenced for insider trading
A stockbroker from Lakeside, Chad Wiegand, 42, will be sentenced Jan. 22 after pleading guilty to insider trading.
Wiegand received private information about a firm’s merger from a relative and used it to trade for himself and his brokerage clients, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office. Wiegand reportedly received “illegal earnings” in the words of U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy.
Wiegand gave the info to another broker, Akis Eracieous, 48, of San Diego, and they both used the inside information to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars. Eracieous also pleaded guilty to insider trading and both will be sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabraw.
Wiegand and Eracieous both remain free on $25,000 bond. They could receive up to five years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit securities fraud.
