DA Boudin’s Resentencing Creates Nightmare for Banks
Boudin vacated serial takeover robbery duo’s sentences so they could rob again
In 2012, two robbers initiated a series of takeover robberies of restaurants. The two robbers had a unique size differential that led to their identification. One was short and heavy; the other was tall and slender.
The violent 2012 takeover (with a gun) robbery series
On August 19, 2012, San Bruno Café at 2546 San Bruno Avenue.
On August 26, 2012, Round Table Pizza at 4523 Mission Street.
On August 28, 2012, Underdog Restaurant at 1634 Irving.
On August 31, 2012, Joe’s Cable Car Restaurant at Mission and Silver Streets.
On September 7, 2012, Burger King at 4780 Mission Street.
On September 9, 2012, Tutti Mellon at 2045 Irving Street.
On September 10, 2012, Unitcall Services at 1410 Ocean Avenue.
On September 11, 2012, Hot Tubs at 2200 Van Ness Avenue.
On September 12, 2012, Verizon Store at Geary and Parker.
On September 14, 2012, Subway Sandwich at 753 Polk.
On September 16, 2012, Sweet Chinitos Café at 3100 Mission Street.
In 2012, SFPD conducted an extensive investigation into this robbery series, downloading videos, tracking down leads, and following suspects’ cars. The victims of these incidents were almost exclusively poorly paid workers that were permanently traumatized by the nightmare of having guns pointed at them and their lives threatened.
After the September 16, 2012 robbery, Ray Farr and Bryan Alexander were arrested for 14 counts of second degree robbery. For the next 1,741 days, Far and Alexander stalled prison by accumulating soft time in County Jail. Farr pleaded guilty to two of the 14 counts and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Alexander pleaded guilty to three of the 14 counts of robbery and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Resentencing under DA Boudin
In 2019, California Assemblyman Phil Ting sponsored Assembly Bill 2942, which opened the door for district attorneys to have a voice in either reducing a convicted felon’s sentence or completely vacating the sentence. The bill became effective on January 1, 2020, only eight days before Chesa Boudin was sworn in as San Francisco’s new District Attorney.
Boudin immediately hired Dana Drusinsky away from the Public Defender’s Office and went to work on vacating imprisoned felons’ sentences. Drusinsky represented the DA’s resentencing unit to the Davis Vanguard organization’s article. Her integrity is both a reflection on Boudin’s governance and the objectives of his resentencing unit.
Per Drusinsky’s LinkedIn profile, she was senior campaign advisor during Boudin’s 2019 election while simultaneously working as an SF public defender. Per Transparent California, Drusinksy earned $134,637 in 2018 and $145,438 in 2019. This indicates she claimed to her supervisors at the Public Defender’s Office that she was working full-time in both years despite juggling her role on Boudin’s campaign staff in 2019. Besides the poor optics of a public defender campaigning for an SF prosecutor, this also means either Drusinsky exaggerated her role in Boudin’s campaign, or she violated San Francisco Ethics laws by simultaneously working extensively on a political campaign while collecting a full-time City salary. A believer, Drusinsky is also being sued by former DA Lieutenant Jeff Pailet for his termination, whereby he alleges he challenged her ethical violations against SFPD Officer Kenneth Cha by withholding exculpatory evidence.
Boudin’s initiated vacating Farr’s and Alexander’s robbery convictions in April 2020. In her interview, Drusinsky said, “The District Attorney’s Office contacts the victims in every single case.” It is impossible to believe that the DA’s office contacted all of the victims in the eleven Farr/Alexander robberies between the time Boudin was sworn in January 2020 and when he started the resentencing procedures in April 2020. There is also a big question on how Boudin so quickly chose these two illustrious robbers for resentencing? What was his involvement in the Farr and Alexander case, or his connection to their public defenders, when Boudin himself was a public defender?
Boudin was successful in getting Alexander released from prison in February 2021 and Farr on June 22, 2021. Both were directed to the to the Homecoming Project, a nonprofit that “helps formerly incarcerated people to successfully rejoin their communities.”
Coincidently a bank robbery series started in the fall of 2021:
On October 20, 2021, Wells Fargo at Stonestown.
On October 29, 2021, the Wells Fargo at Fillmore and Streets.
On November 5, 2021, the Wells Fargo at Van Ness and California Street.
On November 15, 2021, the Wells Fargo at Ocean and Mission Streets.
On November 18, 2021, the First Bank at 1000 Taraval Street.
On November 23, 2021, the Wells Fargo at Ocean and Brighton Streets.
On November 29, 2021, the Noe Valley Wells Fargo on 24th Street.
December 10, 2021, Wells Fargo at 214 Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley.
December 16, 2021, Excite Credit Union at S65 Curtner Road in San Jose.
December 20, 2021, CitiBank at 801 Franklin Street in Oakland.
December 23, 2021, U.S. Bank at 1298 Paseo Padre Parkway in Fremont.
December 27, 2021, Wells Fargo at 3500 Castro Valley Boulevard in Castro Valley.
Farr was identified when he dropped a fingerprint in the San Jose robbery, and SFPD was able to link Alexander’s cellphone to the robbery sites as the getaway driver. Thankfully, the feds (again) are taking Farr’s and Alexander’s new cases away from Boudin.
In her Davis Vanguard interview, Drusinsky said, that the (SFDA) office had been thorough in its review of cases, and that the people resentenced have had strong reentry plans designed to keep them on track. You can’t get it more wrong than Boudin did on Farr and Alexander
The facts speak for themselves. SF’s ranked choice elections produced a DA that is more focused on mass producing get-out-of-jail cards than keeping dangerous and habitual felons away from the public.
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The only link is how much Boudin's cut is after each robbery???
Get this guy out of SF Politics. Send him back home.