LOS ANGELES : 2 Ex-Officers Get 6 Months in Off-Duty Shooting Spree
Two ex-Los Angeles police officers involved in a drunken, off-duty freeway shooting spree Feb. 9 have been sentenced to six months in jail.
Superior Court Judge George W. Trammell also fined Michael Herrera and Ted Teyechea $5,000 apiece, placed them on three years’ felony probation and ordered them to pay the cost of their probation and incarceration.
In the course of sentencing Tuesday, the judge lambasted California Highway Patrol motorcycle Officer Scott Wall, who arrested the defendants after a pursuit on the Harbor and Artesia freeways.
Trammell called Wall “the most culpable” person in the case and said that in 33 years on the bench he had never seen an officer “so thoroughly impeached by his own testimony.”
Wall claimed that Teyechea and Herrera shot at him during a freeway chase, but he gave conflicting accounts of the incident to investigators and during his testimony at the trial.
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