DATE: May 28, 2026<\/p>\n
CASE: LaRalph Choyce\u00a0(Case #25FE011945)<\/p>\n
PROSECUTOR: Deputy District Attorney\u00a0Taylor Balonon, Major Crimes Unit<\/p>\n
On May 26, 2026, LaRalph Choyce was convicted by a jury of robbery.<\/p>\n
On June 19, 2025, LaRalph Choyce met the victim at an elementary school to buy a drone from him. After flying the drone, Choyce\u00a0took out a firearm and pointed it at the victim before taking the drone and fleeing in his vehicle. Choyce was found hiding in the closet of a nearby residence. His vehicle was located in the parking lot of that residence with the drone inside the trunk.<\/p>\n
Allegations that Choyce has two prior strike convictions for robbery will be determined at the sentencing hearing.<\/p>\n
Choyce faces a maximum potential sentence of 35 years to life in prison.\u00a0 Sentencing is set for August 14, 2026, at 9:00 AM in Department 9D before the Honorable Allison Williams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DATE: May 28, 2026 CASE: LaRalph Choyce\u00a0(Case #25FE011945) PROSECUTOR: Deputy District Attorney\u00a0Taylor Balonon, Major Crimes Unit On May…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-337155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}