BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) -- A man was found guilty by jury after a Proposition 36 trial in Kern County on Friday. The proposition passed in November's election increased penalties for retail theft and possession. Dennis Ghianuly was found guilty by a jury. He's convicted of possession of n arcotics with priors and petty theft with priors. On Jan. 8, Bakersfield police were called to a PetSmart on Oswell Street. A manager told officers Dennis Ghianuly walked out with a 44-pound bag of dog food without paying. When officers searched him, they found three grams of fentanyl in his pockets. Before Proposition 36, he would have been charged with a misdemeanor and released, facing up to only one year in prison. Now with the proposition -- and because of his history with drug offenses and robbery, he faces up to seven years and four months in prison. He has drug convictions in 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2020, and in one of them he was charged with attempted robbery. Honor Flight 51 returns to Kern County California voters passed Proposition 36 in November with a resounding 68% voting yes on the proposition. The big changes include a third possession or retail theft charge, no matter the value of the stolen goods, and a thief could be charged with a felony. That's what happened in Ghianuly's case. We reached out to District Attorney Cynthia Zimmer for an interview about the verdict, but she declined to be interviewed. Ghianuly's sentencing is scheduled for June 27. ...read more read less