{"id":50655,"date":"2014-04-17T13:49:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T20:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=50655"},"modified":"2017-07-30T21:29:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T04:29:53","slug":"gang-member-gets-100-years-in-prison-for-lancaster-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2014\/04\/17\/gang-member-gets-100-years-in-prison-for-lancaster-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Gang member gets 100+ years in prison for Lancaster assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER \u2013 A 41-year-old reputed gang member was sentenced Wednesday to 106 years to life in prison for attacking his girlfriend and holding her and her brother at gunpoint in a Lancaster house nearly two years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney&#8217;s Office announced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stacey Jerome Whicker<\/strong>\u00a0was found guilty last month of seven counts, including assault with a firearm, false imprisonment by violence and possession for sale of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n<p>Whicker had previous convictions of voluntary manslaughter and robbery stemming from a 1992 shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy District Attorney Seth Carmack said Whicker slapped and choked his girlfriend at his\u00a0Lancaster home\u00a0on Dec. 1, 2012. When her brother tried to intervene, Whicker pulled out a gun and wouldn&#8217;t let either victim go, the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n<p>The brother grabbed a screwdriver, stabbed Whicker in the head, and then managed to escape. Whicker drove off with his girlfriend, and they were later pulled over by police.<\/p>\n<p>Cocaine and cocaine base were found in the car, the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n<p>The case was investigated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department, Lancaster Station.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Information via press release from the Los Angeles County District Attorney\u2019s Office.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER \u2013 A 41-year-old reputed gang member was sentenced Wednesday to 106 years to life in prison for attacking his girlfriend and holding her and her brother at gunpoint in a Lancaster house nearly two years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney&#8217;s Office announced. Stacey Jerome Whicker\u00a0was found guilty last month of seven counts, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}