A 32-year-old Fontana man received 29 years to life in prison on Friday, Nov. 22, for robbing an off-duty US Secret Service agent at gunpoint in a Tustin neighborhood shortly after a presidential event in Los Angeles. Jamonte Fitzgerald Johnson — a third-striker who was on federal probation for a weapons violation and parole for making criminal threats — was convicted in October of second-degree robbery with the use of a firearm for holding up the agent who was returning from working at a downtown Los Angeles fundraiser attended by President Joe Biden. On June 15, Johnson and two accomplices — E’shon Dwayne Dodson and Bertran Claude Bell — apparently followed the agent from Los Angeles toward the agent’s home, tailing the agent on the freeways before they arrived in a residential neighborhood in Tustin. Police have described it as a crime of rather opportunity than specifically targeting the agent. As the agent got out of a parked car, Johnson pointed his gun at the agent and grabbed the agent’s laptop bag. The agent fired several gunshots, prosecutors said, striking Bell, who was sitting in a nearby SUV. As they fled, the robbers dropped a gun along with what they had stolen: the agent’s cellphone, radio and other belongings. The robbers took Bell to a Los Angeles hospital for treatment. DNA found on the gun and the agent’s belongings led authorities to Johnson, prosecutors said. He was arrested in Riverside on July 11. Tustin detectives and members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department took Dodson into custody in Watts on July 17 and Bell in Los Angeles on July 24. Bell quickly pleaded guilty to a felony count of second-degree robbery and on July 29 was sentenced to six years in prison . Dodson went to trial alongside Johnson and was also convicted. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 10, when he will face up to six years in state prison. While he was convicted for the same crime as Dodson and Bell, Johnson received the far longer sentence because of his previous convictions. Related Articles Courts | Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ third bid to be released on bail won’t be decided until next week Courts | 3.8 magnitude earthquake hits north of Malibu Courts | Colorado funeral home owners who let nearly 190 bodies decay plead guilty to corpse abuse Courts | Trump convinced Republicans to overlook his misconduct. But can he do the same for his nominees? Courts | Judge delays Trump hush money sentencing in order to decide where case should go now