Dylan Zirpolo, 29, was arrested after an investigation into his Instagram account, @Deehammy, police say.
SAN FRANCISCO — A Bay Area man was sentenced to four years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, in a case where San Francisco police uncovered evidence of suspected firearm dealing from his Instagram account, court records show.
Zirpolo was arrested in May 2021 in Oakland, after a 911 caller reported seeing a suspected “male pimp and female prostitute” parked in a BMW in an alleyway, prosecutors said in court records. Responding officers found a pistol in his car, and four days later searched his home and found numerous firearm parts and two empty magazines.
In 2020, Zirpolo was convicted of threatening a domestic partner in a criminal case that stemmed from what prosecutors described as an “hour-long assault” where he punched, kicked, and struck a woman with his car. He also has a 2015 conviction for attempted pimping and was not allowed to possess guns.