San Diego
One of San Diego’s 10 most-wanted criminals was captured Friday at Mercy Hospital, where he had sought treatment for a gunshot wound in his left leg, police said.
John Palkovic, 21, wanted for violating parole and on suspicion of attempted murder, was not home when police raided his Rancho Penasquitos house at 10 a.m.
Police were led to Mercy Hospital, where Palkovic had been admitted under the name Brian Hasse. Before making the arrest at 11 a.m., police had a patient in the same room rolled out.
Palkovic was released in November from the California Medical Facility in Vacaville after serving one year for auto theft. He is suspected of participating in the shooting of a man in December. He was considered “armed and extremely dangerous, and extremely violent.”
Police were uncertain how or when Palkovic had been wounded.
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