Local News in Brief : Fugitive Vows to Fight Extradition
A fugitive on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list who was arrested in Mexico on charges that he shot to death a Boston police officer said Wednesday that he will fight extradition from California to Massachusetts.
Ted Otsuki, bound in handcuffs and leg irons, made the announcement in a brief appearance in Los Angeles Municipal Court. Judge Susan Isacoff scheduled more extradition proceedings for Oct. 6 and ordered Otsuki, 36, held without bail until then.
Otsuki was flown to Los Angeles on Monday, one day after Mexican federal agents arrested him in Guadalajara and expelled him from that country, said James Ahearn, special agent in charge of the Boston FBI office.
Otsuki, who was armed with a .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun but surrendered without incident, is suspected of fatally shooting Officer Roy Sergei last Oct. 2.
The FBI says Otsuki, a convicted Texas bank robber who used several aliases, also wounded another Boston officer and was wanted for possession of explosives that he intended to use during bank robberies in San Francisco.
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