Former Calif. gang member gets 126 years

[Blu Lacez]

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - A former gang member convicted in a jewelry heist that resembled robberies he described in his memoir has been sentenced to 126 years in prison.

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Colton Simpson, 41, declined to speak during Friday's sentencing hearing and showed no reaction when Superior Court Judge F. Paul Dickerson III issued the sentence.

Simpson, who has previous felony convictions, was sentenced under the state's three strikes law. He was found guilty of robbery, burglary and grand theft for his role in a 2003 heist at a Robinsons-May Co. department store jewelry counter in Temecula.

Simpson was accused of being the mastermind and getaway car driver. Two unidentified men, who were not prosecuted, were accused of entering the store and actually pulling off the heist.

Dickerson permitted Simpson's 2005 memoir, "Inside the Crips: Life Inside L.A.'s Most Notorious Gang," to be presented as evidence during the trial.

Prosecutors argued that a visit by Simpson to the jewelry counter two days before the robbery was similar to scenes in the book.

After being physically and emotionally abused by his mother and her live-in boyfriend, Colton Simpson moved in with his grandmother. She took care of him and brought him to church, but Simpson still became Li'l Cee. This was his name among the Crips, and on the night he was initiated into the gang-the same day that he hit a home run in Little League-he shot two men at a gas station. He was ten years old. In this often enthralling and emotional memoir, Simpson takes readers inside his life with the gang, from the time he joined through his 16-month prison sentence and to his leaving the Crips. Some passages are quite graphic and can drag on a bit too long, and some of Simpson's turns of phrase can seem a bit awkward or overdramatic. ("The tumbling dominoes of my life events lose their velocity.") But the world Simpson evokes with Pearlman's help is fascinating, and his narrative is clearly heartfelt. For those readers willing to look, the book provides a window into an often misunderstood way of life.

  From His Book "Inside the Crip
Life inside L.A.'s Most Notorious Gang'
By Carlton Simpson aka "Li'l Cee"

[J.D. Wykid, Esq.]

daaamn, he should have stayed writing those books.


another one falls in the trap.  i hope he didnt have any kids. 

[Blu Lacez]

daaamn, he should have stayed writing those books.


another one falls in the trap.  i hope he didnt have any kids. 

YEAH.. though some exceprt from his book were used against him though
Espeically the memoires regarding the jewellry heist.

[J.D. Wykid, Esq.]

daaamn, he should have stayed writing those books.


another one falls in the trap.  i hope he didnt have any kids. 

YEAH.. though some exceprt from his book were used against him though
Espeically the memoires regarding the jewellry heist.

fucked up.  did the other two snitch on him? it says they weren't prosecuted, but it doesn't say they gave him up, either...

[Blu Lacez]

daaamn, he should have stayed writing those books.


another one falls in the trap.  i hope he didnt have any kids. 

YEAH.. though some exceprt from his book were used against him though
Espeically the memoires regarding the jewellry heist.

fucked up.  did the other two snitch on him? it says they weren't prosecuted, but it doesn't say they gave him up, either...

^^ I don't know-but that's anybody guess right now!!!

In Lieu of any other information, "them snitching' would seem the plausible explnantion..
Messed up!

[Laconic]

That would be an interesting read.

[K.Dub]

126 years ?
What's the point in that ?

Just give him life sentence..

[LooN3y]

lmfao that their usin his own video as evidence

[AnybodyKilla]

daaamn, he should have stayed writing those books.


another one falls in the trap.  i hope he didnt have any kids. 

YEAH.. though some exceprt from his book were used against him though
Espeically the memoires regarding the jewellry heist.

fucked up.  did the other two snitch on him? it says they weren't prosecuted, but it doesn't say they gave him up, either...

Damn 126 years in prison haha, fuck that shit, id kill myself right away. And Wykid, Frankin got slapped lol!!!

[UKnowWhatItIs: welcome to my traps....game over]

lmfao that their usin his own video as evidence

It's a book dumbass.

[LooN3y]

lmfao that their usin his own video as evidence

It's a book dumbass.

who da fuck is this guy? lol, i didnt even read that whole thing, its fucking pointless i juz skimmd through it i mean shit my bad that u take it to the heart cuz on this forum its the only place u get to know bout gettin lockd up

fucking sqaure

[Throwback]

looney framfooney.

[UKnowWhatItIs: welcome to my traps....game over]

lmfao that their usin his own video as evidence

It's a book dumbass.

who da fuck is this guy? lol, i didnt even read that whole thing, its fucking pointless i juz skimmd through it i mean shit my bad that u take it to the heart cuz on this forum its the only place u get to know bout gettin lockd up

fucking sqaure

Aren't you asian or something??? LMAO, see guys with small dicks have no right to speak on anybody about anything so please, shut the fuck up. Oh & prison isn't the place I'd wanna go since I don't wanna get fucked in the ass like you pal, lol.

[LooN3y]

lmfao that their usin his own video as evidence

It's a book dumbass.

who da fuck is this guy? lol, i didnt even read that whole thing, its fucking pointless i juz skimmd through it i mean shit my bad that u take it to the heart cuz on this forum its the only place u get to know bout gettin lockd up

fucking sqaure

Aren't you asian or something??? LMAO, see guys with small dicks have no right to speak on anybody about anything so please, shut the fuck up. Oh & prison isn't the place I'd wanna go since I don't wanna get fucked in the ass like you pal, lol.

lol at this guy he think hes funny. a dumb fuck 20 yr old, yea ud get ur ass fuckd cuz your a bitch.

[UKnowWhatItIs: welcome to my traps....game over]

^^^Small dick lol