In re Abraham S. CA2/6

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Appellant was born in July 1996. In February 2009, he was detained on a charge of battery on school property (Pen. Code, § 243.2, subd. (a)(1)). He was subsequently referred to a program but failed to complete it.

1 All undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code. Later that same year, appellant was granted diversion (§ 654.2) for separate incidents of grand and petty theft (Pen. Code, §§ 484, subd. (a), 487, subd. (a)). In 2010, he was charged with possessing marijuana (Health & Saf. Code, § 11357, subd. (e)) and was referred to a program he failed to complete. In June 2011, appellant pointed what appeared to be a sawed-off shotgun at someone's chest and demanded his property. The court sustained a petition charging him with robbery (Pen. Code, § 211) and ordered him to serve 365 days in juvenile hall. Less than a month later, appellant and his companions robbed multiple victims of their cell phones by intimidating them with a BB gun. The court sustained a subsequent petition charging him with four counts of robbery and other crimes. The probation department recommended a DJJ commitment, but the court ordered an…