Photos from Tyler Revels' Instagram led to a search of his Marin County home where a firearm was found. (Northern District Court Records)
SAN FRANCISCO — A San Rafael man who allegedly posted pictures of himself holding a pistol as he drove through Oakland has been sentenced to five years and three months in federal prison, court records show.
Tyler Revels, 25, was sentenced in late June by U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria. Revels pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, a charge that stemmed from an April 2021 probation search of his home that occurred after his probation officer learned of the incriminating Instagram posts, prosecutors said.
Probation officers found 60 loose bullets, a loaded pistol and multiple magazines in the home, authorities said.
Revels was charged in federal court in October 2021, and was released from pretrial custody. During a search of his home in March 2022, authorities allegedly found identifying information for several people, including a woman who reported losing her wallet at a Bay Area spa days earlier. He pleaded guilty to the gun charge in May 2022.
Despite the sentence, Revels had not yet been transferred to federal prison. He is currently in custody at the Marin County jail, where he faces false imprisonment and battery charges, as well as an accusation that he attacked a fellow inmate, according to the jail’s registry.
Revels’ lawyer wrote in court papers that while on pretrial release, Revels “completely turned his life around” and got a job as a case manager/community health worker with Code Tenderloin, a San Francisco-based workforce development nonprofit.
Originally published at Nate Gartrell