Window-Shattering Suspects Sentenced in Unrelated Offenses

Two men arrested in connection with a string of window-shattering attacks on Los Angeles area freeways were sentenced Monday to two years in state prison for violating their probation on earlier cases.

Jose Soto, 21 and Hugo Hernandez, 22, acknowledged during a Los Angeles Superior Court hearing that they possessed guns in violation of the terms of their probation.

Hernandez and Soto had been on probation after receiving a suspended sentences for felony joy riding and receiving stolen property, respectively.

The pair were arrested Oct. 9 after California Highway Patrol investigators were tipped off that the two might have been involved in some of the 250 freeway attacks, in which motorists’ rear windows were shattered.

At the time of the arrest, police found BBs and marbles in the pair’s van and a sawed-off shotgun, an AK-47 assault rifle, a 9-millimeter semiautomatic handgun, BBs, marbles and two air guns in the house the two shared near USC.

Although the two have yet to be charged with any of the freeway attacks, they were immediately taken into custody for possessing the weapons in violation of their probation.