Man Wanted By FBI Gets 25 Years In Deputy Shooting
NORWALK (AP) — A man once listed among the FBI's Ten Most Wanted fugitives has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for shooting and injuring a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy.
Emigdio Preciado on Tuesday pleaded guilty to assault on a peace officer. The 41-year-old gang member had fled after the shooting in September 2000.
He was extradited last year from Mexico, where he had lived in a small town under an assumed name.
Preciado and two other men were charged in the shooting of Deputy Michael Schapp in Whittier during a traffic stop. The two others charged in the case were convicted and sentenced to prison.
Schapp was shot in the face, but his partner was not wounded.
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