‘Handsome’ law-breaker of mugshot celebrity is charged with firearm, squad crimes
The male whose “handsome” Stockton military mugshot went viral was charged Friday with illegally possessing a firearm, as good as other gun- and gang-related charges.
Jeremy Meeks, 30, was also indicted of violating his parole, prosecutors said.
Meeks attracted worldwide media courtesy Thursday after his engagement print was posted on a Stockton Police Department’s Facebook page in tie with a law coercion operation.
Not prolonged after his print went adult on a site, someone combined a fan page on Facebook for Meeks, that has perceived some-more than 39,500 likes.
The Stockton Police Department’s Facebook page soon went viral, garnering scarcely 50,000 “likes,” 14,700 comments and some-more than 5,400 shares by Friday morning.
On Friday, the San Joaquin County district attorney’s bureau minute a resources underneath that a viral Internet prodigy was arrested this week.
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Meeks was stopped by Stockton military about 6:30 a.m. Thursday after he and others were seen withdrawal a home where a hunt aver was about to be executed. Meeks was a motorist of a automobile with dual passengers. One of them, 23-year-old Terry Bailey, is on hearing and is confronting identical charges.
Prosecutors lay that when officers searched a newcomer cell of Meeks’ car, they found a 9 mm turn and a installed semiautomatic handgun, along with dual extended magazines for a gun, according to the San Joaquin County district attorney’s office.
At his prosecution Friday, Meeks’ bail set during $1 million.
Meeks’ mother, Katherine Angier, has set adult a fundraising page, partly to dispel what she says are stereotypes about her son, and partly to lift $25,000 for his authorised defense.
“He’s my son and he is so sweet,” she pronounced on a “Free Jeremy” page. “Please assistance him to get a satisfactory hearing or else he’ll be railroaded.”
Meeks has already served dual years in state jail for a 2002 self-assurance on grand burglary in Solano County, according to prosecutors.
Meeks and Bailey are also documented members of a Northside Gangster Crips, combining a basement for a squad allegations in a complaint, according to a district attorney’s office.
All a courtesy Meeks’ engagement print perceived apparently held a law-breaker off-guard, according to an talk he gave to KXTV in Sacramento.
“I only visited my wife, and she pronounced we like blew adult all over Facebook,” Meeks told KXTV’s Nick Monacelli from jail Thursday.
The escape of indebtedness had nonetheless to decline Friday. Comments ranged from a entire “Omg he’s hot!!” to a some-more pointed.
“He’s too excellent to be a criminal. we got $10 on his bail,” one lady wrote.
“He’s too flattering go to go jail…yet again,” combined another.
Meek pronounced that yet he appreciates a attention, he also wanted to get his side of a story out to a public.
“I only wish them to know that this is unequivocally not like me, I’m not some kingpin,” he said.
He is approaching to seem in justice again Jun 27.
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