Jeffrey Adam Crum, a former resident of both Burlingame and San Francisco, has been handed down a prison sentence of one year and one day by Senior U.S. District Judge Susan Illston for assaulting a Deputy U.S. Marshal. This incident occurred during his attempt to avoid being taken into custody after a federal court hearing on November 22, 2024. According to a press release by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California, the 34-year-old also received a concurrent sentence for violating the terms of his supervised release.
Crum, who had previously been convicted for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition in Utah, violated his supervised release, following which the court ruled that he should be detained. In what appeared to escalate into a physical altercation quickly, Crum actively resisted the Deputy U.S. Marshals' attempts to place him into an elevator directed to a holding cell. His opposition culminated when he suddenly kicked out, striking one of the officers in the head. "Crum was upset by the Court’s decision and opposed, resisted, and impeded the efforts of multiple Deputy U.S. Marshals to take him into custody," detailed the U.S. Attorney's Office's announcement. Crum was immediately remanded into custody following the sentence.
The confrontation led to Crum's indictment on December 3, 2024, for assaulting, resisting, or impeding a federal officer in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 111(a)(1). He later entered a guilty plea on May 16, 2025, effectively acknowledging his actions against the Deputy U.S. Marshal. According to court documents and the plea agreement, Crum's discontent with the legal process and its outcome set the altercation into motion.
The case was prosecuted by Special Assistant U.S. Attorneys Eli J. Cohen and Christine Chen, with whom Marina Ponomarchuk and Kevin Costello assisted. United States Attorney Craig H. Missakian and Supervisory Deputy United States Marshal David Siegel announced the sentencing. "The defendant was immediately remanded into custody," said a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office.
