As three teens fled after egging his house, Miceli came outside and fired two shots at the car with a handgun, prosecutors said.
Craig Steven Miceli, 55, will face a maximum of three years in prison as part of the plea deal, which was entered Monday. He also pleaded no contest to possessing an assault weapon as a convicted felon and admitted a firearm enhancement on the assault charge, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.
San Mateo County District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe said that the public can take a lesson from this case in remembering that they do not know how others may react to a provocation.
“For teenagers, you just think you’re just pulling pranks, rude pranks, that type of a thing, and you think it’s funny,” Wagstaffe said. “They probably all thought it was quite funny, but you don’t know who’s in that house. ” “In this case, Mr. Miceli … was somebody who had had just enough,” Wagstaffe added.
“He grossly overreacted by taking a gun out and actually firing it at them. And as a society, we cannot allow that. ” Wagstaffe added that the plea deal was “appropriate” given the circumstances of the case, adding that the charges Miceli pled to provide the sentencing range his office was seeking. They initially requested a sentence of five years and felt that “would have been a better sentencing range.
” “The court will consider the entire set of circumstances behind his crime, and that includes all three victims there,” Wagstaffe said.
“Pleading to one count, it accounts for what he did. ”The incident began May 25, 2025, when three Hillsdale High School teenaged boys egged Miceli’s house, two days after pouring oil on his front porch, prosecutors said. The boys, who at the time were 16 and 17 years old, had been driving around San Mateo after midnight to play pranks on their classmates, stopping at Miceli’s house on the 1000 block of Annapolis Drive, prosecutors said.
The boys threw eggs at Miceli’s house before getting back into their SUV and driving away. As they fled, Miceli exited his home and fired two shots at the car with a handgun, prosecutors said. One bullet lodged in a panel on the SUV’s passenger side.
Police interviewed Miceli, who told authorities that he was angry about having to clean the oil off his property, and said that his daughter had been the victim of bullying at Hillsdale High School, prosecutors said. He admitted that he had fired his gun at the fleeing car, aiming for the tires, then disposed of his gun in Water Dog Lake.
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The hearing was overseen by San Mateo County Superior Court Criminal Presiding Judge Jeffrey B. Jackson. Miceli will next appear in court August 25 for his sentencing hearing. He remains out of custody on $25,000 bail and has been ordered to have no contact with the three teen victims.
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