Crime & Safety
Bonds Sentenced To Probation, Home Confinement
Record holder Barry Bonds was sentenced in federal court Friday.
Former San Francisco Giant Barry Bonds was sentenced to two year probation, 30 days home confinement and 250 hours of community service in federal court Friday for obstruction of justice in a 2003 investigation of steroid distribution.
According to the Mercury News, prosecutors sought a 15-month prison sentence for Bonds.
Bonds, 47, was found guilty of obstruction of justice for answering a federal grand jury evasively regarding his trainer and long-time friend, Greg Anderson, giving him steroids during an investigation of Burlingame-based Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative,or BALCO.
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Former Burlingame resident Anderson’s home was searched as part of the investigation.
The Mercury News also reported that U.S. District Judge Susan Illston agreed to stay the sentence while Bonds appeals his conviction.
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