After deliberating for 15 and a half hours over three days, a jury convicted a parolee of robbing nine businesses including five in the South Bay. Deputy District Attorney Jim Koerber said David Peters, 52, who is also known as Shalako Blackfoot, faces a maximum sentence of 325 years to life in state prison.
Koerber said Peters faces such a long term because he is a third strike offender; he faces 30 years to life per charge. Court records say Peters has been previously convicted of three counts of robbery in 1998 and four burglaries in 2001.
San Diego Superior Court Judge Sharon Majors-Lewis set sentencing for Jan. 15. Peters remains in the central jail without bail. He was arrested Feb. 25, 2014, by San Diego Police.
The same jury also convicted Peters of attempted robbery and auto theft from a woman in Emerald Hills. They acquitted him of robbing a Motel 6 in San Ysidro which was about a block from where Peters was living in another motel at the time.
Peters was convicted of robbing a 7-Eleven, at 899 Broadway in Chula Vista on Jan. 23, 2014, and the Sunny Donut at 610 Broadway in Chula Vista on Jan. 27, 2014. The jury convicted him of holding up the Circle K store on Broadway in Chula Vista on Feb. 22, 2014.
He was also found guilty of robbing Hollister Gas, at 1102 Hollister St. in Nestor, and a Subway sandwich shop at 610 Dennery Road south of Chula Vista. Koerber said the jury got to see surveillance video footage from most of the robberies.
