LOS ANGELES : Ex-High School Sports Star Sentenced for Gun Thefts
A onetime all-city linebacker at Jordan High School in Los Angeles was sentenced Monday to 18 months in federal prison for his role in successful and failed gang-related gun store crimes.
George B. Thenarse and two reputed South-Central gang members were convicted of the early morning break-in and theft of 93 handguns from a South Gate store and a botched burglary at a Westminster shop, said Assistant U.S. Atty. Ronald Cheng.
Both attempts occurred within a 13-day period last April when authorities reported three similarly styled break-ins. Thenarse’s sentencing came a year and two days after the theft at the Stockade Gun Store.
U.S. District Judge Terry Hatter Jr. ordered the 20-year-old former football captain, who graduated from Jordan in 1992, to pay $32,000 restitution to the Stockade’s owners to cover damages and cost of the weapons, the prosecutor said.
Thenarse’s accomplices, Michael Bourgeois, 21, and Cedric Gunter, 24, are scheduled to be sentenced June 12.
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