Man awaiting sentencing in gun case sent to prison after offering to be pimp

OAKLAND — A man awaiting sentencing in a federal gun case was sent to prison for two years after prosecutors said he approached an undercover officer posing as a prostitute and offered to be her pimp, court records show.

Goldy Raybon had pleaded no contest in June 2025 to being a felon in possession of a firearm. But on Jan. 14 — before he could be sentenced — prosecutors say he “approached an undercover officer participating in an operation targeting pimps along the Oakland Blade, a stretch of International Boulevard long associated with street prostitution.”

Raybon offered to manage the officer as a pimp, prosecutors said in court filings. The contact prompted prosecutors to successfully ask a judge to remand him to jail while he awaited sentencing on the other charge.

Raybon was sentenced Jan. 28.

The underlying gun case stemmed from an incident in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood Jan. 8, 2023, when prosecutors say Raybon brandished what witnesses believed was an AK-47, prompting people to call 911. When police arrested him, Raybon said the rifle was fake but admitted to hiding a real handgun under a car two days later while Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents were surveilling him, according to court records.

In the undercover exchange, the officer told Raybon her previous pimp had beaten her and failed to pay her properly.

Raybon responded that he would treat her well, arrange photo shoots and help build a regular clientele so she could earn “about $2000.00 a night,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Ivana Djak wrote in court filings.

“The Defendant referenced being in the pimping ‘game’ for a long time,” Djak added.

Raybon’s attorney initially argued he was turning his life around. In an October sentencing memo, Assistant Federal Public Defender Samantha Jaffe wrote that “Mr. Raybon is not committing new crimes. He is not using drugs. He is working and going to treatment.”

After the undercover sting, however, Jaffe acknowledged the setback.

“Mr. Raybon knows that he betrayed this Court’s trust in him,” she wrote while urging a 16-month sentence.

Prosecutors said Raybon cannot possess firearms because of eight prior adult convictions, including robbery, animal cruelty and drug offenses.