California’s Soft-on-Crime Policies Strike Again As Thirteen-Time Felon Charged With Robbery

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed bills this year banning the sale of Glock handguns, requiring purchases of gun barrels to go through background checks, and a new gun rationing scheme; all aimed at folks who want to be lawful gun owners in the state. 

Meanwhile, the state’s criminal justice system and soft-on-crime prosecutors keep returning violent and prolific offenders to the streets with little more than a slap on the wrist for their misdeeds. 

n alleged North Oakland gang member with 13 prior felony convictions has been charged in a robbery where the victim was shot in the leg but survived, court records show.

Demaria Adger, 30, has racked up 13 felony convictions in Contra Costa, Alameda and Los Angeles counties since 2013, according to the charging documents. This month, he was charged with assault with a firearm, second-degree robbery and gun possession, all stemming from a July 16 robbery where his alleged cohort shot the victim while attempting to rob the man after he visited an ATM in Hayward, authorities said.

That’s an average of slightly more than one felony conviction each year since Adger reached adulthood, and these aren’t victimless crimes. His priors include convictions for assault, burglary, conspiracy, “street terrorism” (which is essentially street-level gang activity, robbery, and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. 

California’s gun control laws failed to prevent Adger from illegally obtaining a firearm, just like the criminal justice system has failed to keep him behind bars. 

He has been sentenced to prison before, including for five years in 2022, and had gotten in trouble for five probation violations since last year, including for failing to register as a gang member, absconding and battery, according to court records.

While Adger might have been sentenced to five years in prison, it looks like his actual incarceration was about half that. And to make matters worse, despite some egregious probation violations, including another arrest for a violent crime, the “trouble” he faced for those violations apparently didn’t include going back to prison for any lengthy period of time, if at all. 

While Adger is currently being held without bail in connection with the robbery that took place in Hayward, California last year, he could be freed until trial as early as November 7, when he’s due back in court for a hearing. 

If California wasn’t the epitome of progressive insanity, Gavin Newsom would be publicly blasting the courts and prosecutors for allowing Adger to rack up his mile-long rap sheet. Instead, Newsom only seems capable of criticizing President Donald Trump. 

California will stand up for the rule of LAW not the rule of DON. pic.twitter.com/6lMOS4J5aV

— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) October 26, 2025

You cannot stand up for the rule of law and allow individuals like Demaria Adger to repeatedly re-offend with little or no consequence. I’d say Newsom needs to stop his obsession with Trump and focus on guys like Adger instead, but we know that isn’t going to happen. Newsom’s eyeing a run for president in 2028, and even if he had issues with the criminal justice system in California he can’t afford to voice those concerns. 

I don’t think Newsom has a problem with the state’s court system or prosecutors like Los Angeles D.A. George Gascon, though. I suspect that the legal system is running just the way he wants it; delivering sweetheart deals to repeat offenders while punishing any legal gun owner who dares try to exercise her Second Amendment rights. 

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