Despite pleading guilty to more than fifty felonies, a serial burglar known as the “Snake Burglar” was set to walk out of jail Thursday, thanks in part to a 2011 California law mean to ease overcrowding in state prisons.
In a Riverside County courtroom Thursday, Christopher Jackson pleaded guilty to 54 counts of commercial burglary. Prosecutors say it is the 77th felony he has pled guilty to in the past nine months. Despite that, he was slated to be released from jail
Jackson, 32, is known as the “Snake Burglar” because of the way he slithered across floors to avoid alarms at dozens of Riverside County businesses. One of the businesses he targeted was D’Elia’s Grinders, where he stole cash and caused damage costing the owner roughly $3,000. "Since the night of our business being burglarized, I learned of 30 similar charges in November of 2022, and I was told [Jackson] was sentenced to six 16-month consecutive sentences and yet was released in just 10 days,” D’Elia’s Grinders owner Brian Perrone said.Sign up for NBC LA newsletters.
During his victim impact statement, he expressed anger at Assembly Bill 109, which voters passed in 2011. The bill's basic function is to ease overcrowding in California’s state prison system by diverting inmates convicted of nonviolent felonies to county jails. However, prosecutors say county jails are also overcrowded, so habitual criminals like Jackson are often released within hours of being arrested.Get Los Angeles's latest local news on crime, entertainment, weather, schools, COVID, cost of living and more. Here's your go-to source for today's LA news.
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