The FBI investigates at the San Francisco home of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi Friday afternoon, after the early morning break in and assault of her husband Paul Pelosi. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
David DePape faces both federal and state charges for allegedly breaking into the San Francisco home of Paul and Nancy Pelosi on Oct. 28 and attacking the U.S. House speaker’s husband.
The charges are listed in a federal complaint that was filed Oct. 31 in U.S. District Court for Northern California and in a motion to detain filed Nov. 1 by the San Francisco district attorney’s office in Superior Court.
Federal charges
• Assault on the immediate family member of a federal official, with the intent to retaliate against the official on account of the performance of official duties.
• Attempted kidnapping of a federal official on account of the performance of official duties.
Charges by the San Francisco district attorney
• Attempted murder, with allegations that it was willful, deliberate and premeditated, that the defendant used a deadly or dangerous weapon, and that the defendant inflicted great bodily injury on a person 70 years of age or older.
• First-degree residential burglary, with an allegation that another person was present in the residence during the commission of the burglary.
• Assault with a deadly weapon, with an allegation that the defendant inflicted great bodily injury on a person 70 years of age or older.
• Inflicting unjustifiable physical pain or mental suffering on an elder adult, with allegations that the defendant inflicted great bodily injury and used a deadly or dangerous weapon.
• False imprisonment of an elder adult by violence or menace, with allegations that the defendant inflicted great bodily injury and used a deadly or dangerous weapon.
• Threatening the life of or threatening serious bodily harm to an elected public official or their immediate family, with allegations that the defendant inflicted great bodily injury and used a deadly or dangerous weapon.
• Dissuading a victim.
• Damaging or preventing a communication for an emergency call.
The federal charges carry maximum sentences of 30 years for assault, 20 years for attempted kidnapping. The district attorney’s charges carry a combined sentence of 13 years, 8 months to life.
Originally published at Bay Area News Group