Killer’s Accomplice Gets 8 Years for Drug Sales
A Los Angeles man was sentenced Friday in San Fernando Superior Court to more than eight years in prison for assault and selling cocaine, a day after his accomplice was convicted of second-degree murder for killing an undercover police officer in Sylmar who tried to arrest him.
Thomas Lee Mixon, 23, was sentenced Friday to 8 years, 4 months in state prison. But because he has already spent more than four years in County Jail, Mixon will spend only about another year in prison before being paroled, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Susan M. Speer.
Mixon’s accomplice, Louis Belvin Jr., 22, was convicted by a San Fernando Superior Court jury late Thursday. In addition to the second-degree murder verdict for fatally shooting undercover Police Officer James H. Pagliotti, 28, on June 22, 1987, Belvin also was found guilty of selling cocaine and assaulting two men in unrelated incidents.
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