The State - News from July 11, 1986

The son of an Arkansas sheriff’s deputy has pleaded no contest to charges in an April 7 Bay Area shoot-out during which he allegedly fired about 40 rifle shots at law enforcement officers on U.S. 101. Police say Lewis Charles Sebourn held them off for almost two hours while his truck was parked on the freeway median near Burlingame. The 22-year-old Fayetteville man pleaded no contest to five counts of assaulting an officer with a deadly weapon and one count of shooting at an occupied vehicle. Charges of attempted murder are being dropped in exchange for his plea, defense attorney Geoffrey Carr said. Sebourn faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison when sentenced in San Mateo County Superior Court on Aug. 12, Carr said. He was arrested after a sheriff’s negotiator coaxed him into surrendering. No one was injured in the shoot-out.