Gang member allegedly brags about crimes on recorded call

East Bay man may have used stolen IDs for Airbnb rentals, burglarized them

OAKLAND >> While he was in Santa Rita jail on then-unresolved federal charges, an East Bay man allegedly implied he’d been involved in shootings, confessed to a large-scale burglary spree and expressed excitement about rising in the ranks of his gang in federal prison, according to records released last week.

Franciso Noyola, 23, wrote in a letter that he was “(expletive) for real” if authorities investigated the gun that he was convicted of possessing in an East Oakland neighborhood last January, court records show.

“Only I know what I did with that gun,” he allegedly wrote.

Then, in a recorded jail call, Noyola reportedly bragged to a fellow gang member named “Gumby” about burglarizing “Airbnb mansions” in Santa Clara, where Noyola has a pending felony burglary case. He is alleged to have used stolen identities and credit cards to rent homes through the apartment rental site, “and then burglarize and trash the homes,” according to court records.

“(Expletive) Airbnb, you ever heard of that (expletive)?” Noyola allegedly said on one call. “The mansions you rent on the internet… I was hitting all those (expletive).”

“Is that right?” Gumby asked, according to a transcript.

“Yeah, like 60 bams one day,” Noyola replied.

In January, after he was released from jail, Noyola allegedly ran from Oakland officers attempting to search him, pushed and kicked the officers when they caught up with him, and yelled “Take my .45,” a reference to his gun, as they apprehended him. Last week, he was sentenced to two years in federal prison for illegal gun possession.

Authorities describe Noyola as a member a Fruitvale-based subset of a Northern California gang, and that jail guards found a note in his cell with gang monikers and slogans written on it. In other calls, he says he thinks he’ll earn respect by going to prison.

“I am going to become a big homie now,” Loyola said, according to a transcript. “Everybody in the feds right here when they get to federal prison they become big homies.”