Smiley Allen Martin, the second man arrested in the wake of Sunday’s mass shooting in Sacramento that killed six, has a criminal record stretching to 2013 and last year was the subject of a plea by Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert’s office that he not win early release from prison, where he was serving a 10-year sentence for domestic violence and assault with great bodily injury.
Brothers Smiley Martin and Deandrae Martin are both suspects in the shooting that occurred Sunday, April 3, 2022, killing six people in downtown Sacramento California.
Despite a two-page letter to the Board of Parole Hearings urging that Martin remain in custody, he won his release and was in Sacramento on Saturday night recording himself on a Facebook Live video brandishing a handgun hours before the shooting.
On Tuesday, Sacramento police arrested Martin, 27, at a hospital after he was injured in the shooting. He faces charges of possession of a machine gun and possession of a firearm by a felon. A law enforcement source confirmed the machine gun is a handgun that was found at the scene Sunday that had been converted to be capable of firing as an automatic weapon.
DA’s office last year vehemently opposed Smiley Martin’s release from the 10-year prison sentence he received in Sacramento Superior Court on Jan. 12, 2018.
DA Martin's comments are in italics below.
“Inmate Martin’s criminal conduct is violent and lengthy,” Deputy District Attorney Danielle Abildgaard wrote in a two-page letter to the Board of Parole Hearings on April 29, 2021, opposing his release.
“In January of 2013, just six months after his eighteenth birthday, Inmate Martin was contacted by law enforcement officers,” the letter states. “Inmate Martin attempted to discard an assault rifle which he had concealed in his waistband under his clothing."
“The rifle had a pistol grip and the capacity to accept a detachable magazine in front of the pistol grip. Inmate Martin was also found to be in possession of two fully loaded twenty-five round magazines for the assault weapon. Inmate Martin admitted to transporting the assault weapon and large capacity magazines to potential buyers. Inmate Martin was sentenced to probation and county jail.”
Ten months later, Martin and three others walked into a Walmart store and pushed a clerk aside in the electronics department, then fled with several Galaxy Notebooks worth $2,800, the letter states.
“Video surveillance captured the incident,” the letter states. “During the investigation, law enforcement discovered additional robberies committed on November 29, 2013, and November 30, 2013, of similar electronics at other Walmart and Target stores". Witnesses positively identified Inmate Martin through surveillance photos at those subsequent robberies.
“Inmate Martin pled to the robbery and was sentenced to two years in state prison.”
After his release from prison, Martin came to the attention of authorities again in November 2016, when he was stopped in a vehicle with three other passengers and asked for his name and date of birth. Martin gave the officers a phony name and ran when officers told him they were going to detain him, the letter states.
“After a foot pursuit Inmate Martin was eventually incapacitated with a Taser and ultimately taken into custody,” the letter says. “Officers were able to identify him and learned he was a parolee at large.”
Less than six months later, he was involved in the incident that led to the 10-year prison sentence, the letter says, when he forced his way into his girlfriend’s home.
“He located her hiding in her bedroom closet and hit her repeatedly with a closed fist on the face, head, and body, causing visible injuries,” the letter says. “He then dragged her out of the home by her hair to an awaiting car. After he put her in the car, he assaulted her with a belt."
“During the investigation, information was gathered that the victim had been working as a prostitute and that Inmate Martin had been assisting and encouraging her to be a prostitute. Text messages and social media conversations revealed that he would tell her what kind of sex buyer she should date, how much money to charge, how to accept payment, and what forms of payment she should accept.”
California corrections spokeswoman Dana Simas said Tuesday afternoon that the parole board denied Martin parole in May 2021 but ended up being released less than a year later.
“As shown by Inmate Martin’s pattern of conduct, he is an assaultive and non-compliant individual and has absolutely no regard for his victims who are left in the wake of numerous serious offenses,” Schubert’s office wrote last April. “He has no respect for others, for law enforcement or for the law.
“If he is released early, he will continue to break the law.”
8 comments:
More racism from CP of course. Where is the focus on crimes against those of us in Charlotte? First thing I think when reading this, is why on earth do we have machine guns running around? They only get stolen, and into the hands of bad people. All you hording AR15's, understand, you will never, ever fire that weapon in defense. But it may get stolen, and you will have blood on your hands for the victims.
The other things that jump out, is getting ambushed by the police, demanding names and DOB, like this is 1855 and he's a runaway. Of course he is going to give false info. And prostitution is a proven victimless crime. Where is the hatred for the johns they were serving? This all adds up to a young man who needed some serious guidance and love along the way. now he is going to face at least 20 years away, but I have hope he can face the music, be rehabilitated, and become a productive member of society again.
LoL 10:12 the only rehabilitation either of these two MoFos deserve is composting.
Neither one of them would have been out of prison under the Three Strikes Laws. Now repealed in 23 of 50 states. States like California where the judges seldom use the required sentence guidelines of 3 violent felonies and its 25 years to life.
These two are just like bad dogs. Just look at their backgrounds. Sometimes reward training and the clicker just don't work. At some point you just need to take them behind the barn.
Blacks are crazy as fuck. Not all but about 99% its just genetics. Is it learned behavior I don't think so. How do you learn to walk down the street talking on your burner cell phone all the while grabbing your Johnson?
10:12 "This all adds up to a young man who needed some serious guidance and love along the way. now he is going to face at least 20 years away, but I have hope he can face the music, be rehabilitated, and become a productive member of society again."
I suspect you are insane. 20 years and you hope he can be rehabilitated? They murdered 6 people. They need the chair. That is all.
Can you imagine thinking these two upstanding Americans in say Sudan, or Botswana? Yeah they'd get rehabilitated all right and they'd have a fine day or two on public display in the sun afterward.
10:12, we don't have "machine guns running around". what we have is criminals illegally converting normal semi-auto pistols into fully automatic bullet hoses. The reason the "gun nuts" aren't scrambling to get one is that they suck. They are uncontrollable and are only good for spraying bullets into the general area you want them to go. they are great for criminals like these two who are EVIL, not underprivileged or misguided, or whatever bullshit you want to call it. they will NEVER be productive members of society and should be as a previous poster put it, "composted".
10:12.. You are an idiot to think this dumbass will ever be anything but a POS thug!
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