Arrest outside bank violates terms of his parole

By Neal Putnam | Reportero SDUN

An ex-convict who was arrested last April for striking a transient in the testicles with a hammer outside Wells Fargo Bank in Uptown is going back to prison on a parole violation, even though the charges against him were dismissed in June.

Jeffrey Mann, 47, is an ex-convict and transient who was on parole for a previous criminal charge when police arrested him April 18 outside the Wells Fargo Bank for striking Richard Sauer, 43, in the testicles with a hammer. Sauer, who suffered swollen testicles, testified against Mann May 3 in a preliminary hearing in San Diego Superior Court. However, although Mann was ordered to stand trial on a felony charge of assault with a deadly weapon, Deputy District Attorney Gregg McClain recommended the charge be dismissed on grounds that the victim’s credibility was questionable, and a judge concurred. However, Mann, who has been in the George Bailey Detention Facility since his arrest, will nevertheless be back behind bars because the arrest constitutes a violation of his pre-existing parole conditions.

Mann’s criminal career dates to 1988, when he was convicted of burglary, and includes auto theft, felony, evading an officer, and multiple drug possession charges, according to court records. In 2006, Mann received a suspended prison term after pleading guilty to selling cocaine and was on probation when he was arrested in 2007 for selling the drug again, a crime for which he received a six-year prison sentence.