In re A.R. CA4/3

STATEMENT OF FACTS

I.

THE PROSECUTION’S CASE

On December 18, 2023, at about 10:45 p.m., Fullerton Police Officer Mathew Levin and his partner Lloyd de Charmoy Bouchet were dispatched to a residential neighborhood in Fullerton in response to a call about a suspicious vehicle. Upon arrival, they spotted a white four-door sedan parked at the curb. There were two juveniles standing by the trunk of the car, one male and one female. And there were two male juveniles inside the car, one in the driver’s seat and another—A.R., then age 16—in the right rear passenger seat. While Levin contacted the two by the trunk, Bouchet and a backup officer approached the car from opposite sides. In doing so, they spotted an AR-15 assault rifle on the floorboard of the front passenger seat. The rifle was leaning up against the passenger seat, barrel side down, such that about a foot of the weapon was protruding above the seat cushion. According to Bouchet, the rifle was within arm’s reach of where A.R. was sitting in the back of the car. After removing A.R. and the driver from the car, the officers seized the rifle and discovered it had a large capacity magazine and a live

2 round in the chamber.…