In re A.A. CA1/4

I. BACKGROUND

A. The Current Offense The Contra Costa County district attorney filed a supplemental juvenile wardship petition on February 24, 2014 (Welf. & Inst. Code,1 § 602, subd. (a)) alleging Minor, then 17 years old, had actively participated in a criminal street gang (Pen. Code, § 186.22, subd. (a)) and unlawfully possessed a loaded firearm while a member of a criminal street 1 All undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.

1 gang (Pen. Code, §§ 25850, subds. (a) & (c)(3)). The petition also alleged ten prior offenses, and alleged that Minor had admitted a count of possessing a sawed-off shotgun in April 2013. (Pen. Code, § 33210.) On the same date, the Contra Costa County probation department filed a notice of probation violation hearing, alleging Minor had violated the terms of his probation by being away from his home without his parent or guardian during the hours of his curfew. According to an accompanying probable cause declaration and the later probation department’s report, an officer had stopped a vehicle with faulty license plate lamps and expired registration at about 8:44 p.m. on February 21, 2014. He saw two people in the…