Actually, his charge this time was felony vandalism (for backing a 30 foot long truck into a hotel office) and evading pursuit. In the past there have been convictions for ADW and manufacturing controlled substances, and the gang membership is (was? we pray) an added bonus.
Really, this whole trip started in 1990 with a fight at a party, in which somebody got hit with a bottle and somebody else went to Folsom. When I was a kid, we were free to beat the living shit out of each other, bottles, bats and what have you. It is a relatively new thing, where it takes you 20-plus years to reap the wild oats you sow.