Nine members of an Oakland street gang known as Ghost Town have been sentenced to a combined total of nearly 60 years in federal prison for a series of armed robberies that terrorized small Bay Area businesses in 2022, federal prosecutors said.
U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín imposed the sentences, totaling 709 months, with the final defendant sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California.
The defendants — Demarco Barnett, Jakari Jenkins, Danny Garcia, Garland Rabon, Aramiya Burrell, Lester Garnett, Darrin Hutchinson, Ricky Joseph and Keanna Smith-Stewart — all pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit robbery affecting interstate commerce, prosecutors said. Eight also admitted to one or more substantive robbery counts tied to specific crimes…