Apologetic Daly City Robber Gets 15 Years in Prison

By Bay City News Service:

A 20-year-old man who apologized and said his mother had recently died as he forced a man and woman to drive him to a Daly City ATM to rob them was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday, prosecutors said Thursday.

Ofisa Nuu Pele of Daly City pleaded no contest last month to robbery, attempted robbery, threats, kidnapping and grand theft in exchange for the 15-year sentence, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.

He and a juvenile accomplice put on black masks and approached the two victims as they walked to their car the night of May 28. They threatened the victims by simulating a gun with a stick of deodorant. The two victims had no money, so they took the woman’s cell phone and then made them drive to an ATM and forced the woman to withdraw $40, all the money she had in her account, prosecutors said.

They then forced the victims to drive them back and drop them off, while Pele apologized and told them his mother had just died, according to prosecutors.

Police connected Pele and his accomplice to the robbery after they were arrested for the unrelated beating and robbery of another victim to steal his backpack, according to prosecutors.

Pele then admitted to police he committed the May 28 robbery.

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