The following is a press release by the Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office:
Prolonged court proceedings due in part to the pandemic notwithstanding, a Las Vegas-area defendant who slipped into Mendocino County in September 2020 disguised with others as law enforcement officers to ambush two Southern California marijuana money couriers on Covelo Road resolved his case In May and appeared this past Wednesday, June 7th, for sentencing, the day before his 30th birthday.
Defendant Roy Ha, of Las Vegas, Nevada, stands convicted of attempted murder and robbery in the second degree. Ha also admitted a sentencing enhancement that he personally and intentionally discharged a firearm during the commission of the attempted murder.
To make his then fast-approaching May trial go away, the defendant accepted a state prison sentence of thirty (30) years, the stipulated sentence that was imposed on Wednesday by Mendocino County Superior Court Judge Victoria Shanahan.
As part of the negotiated disposition, defendant Ha also waived his appellate rights and all pre-sentence good time/work time credits that he normally would have “earned” from sitting in jail from the 2020 date of his arrest up to the date of sentencing, meaning just over three years’ worth of credits.
Because the defendant’s crimes are characterized as violent in the California Penal Code, the early release credits defendant Ha may attempt to earn moving forward while he is serving his time in state prison is capped by current state law at no more than 15 percent of the overall sentence, meaning he should be required by prison authorities to serve 25 ½ years of his 30-year sentence, absent deductions made by prison authorities, if any, due to in-custody violations of prison rules.
The law enforcement and other agencies that assisted in the initial response and follow-on investigation were the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office, the California Highway Patrol, Cal Fire, the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office, the Ukiah Police Department, MedStar Ambulance, the Potter Valley Fire Department, the Las Vegas Police Department, the FBI, and the District Attorney’s own Bureau of Investigation.
The attorney who has been handling the prosecution of this defendant from 2020 to the present is District Attorney David Eyster.
Mendocino County Superior Court Judge Victoria Shanahan accepted in May the defendant’s negotiated guilty pleas and admissions. Judge Shanahan presided over what turned out to be a very brief sentencing hearing this past week.
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Notice how they didn’t give an exact amount of money stolen or recovered. My guess is because they took most of it. Dirty ass pigs.