Peter Rovanga: Criminal Career

Peter Rovanga/Rovegino was born about 1887 in California. He started his criminal career as a young adult as far as I can tell.



Inmate: #4381 Stockton Jail (CA)
Arrested 4 Feb 1915
Crime: Bunco Man 
Fined $50 and 50 days in jail



Peter had the following alias:

Georg Regan
Fred Casta
Arthur Stevens

Here are two articles from 1915 Stockton, CA

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47429094/george-regan/

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47428936/george-regan/



He was in prison at Michigan State Prison for larceny, 27 Aug 1917.

in 1921 he was selling opium in Oregon and was arrested and sentenced in Portland.


https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47433746/peter-rovegino/






Inmate: #3821 McNeil Island Federal Prison
Rec: 14 July 1921
Crime: Harrison Narcotics Act


He was discharged 9 July 1922 (That means released from prison but still on probation).

He then became a resident at Folsom Prison



Inmate: #14472 Folsom Prison (Sacramento County, CA)
Rec: 24 Nov 1926
Crime: Poison Act
Term: 0-6 yrs






I never found any family information, parents, siblings, wives. He was an drycleaner. 

I found these mugshots of some of his pals.


Arthur Phillips 
Arthur Bergman



Frank Clark



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