Ted Jeffrey Otsuki

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Ted Otsuki
FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive
Chargesmurder of a Boston police officer
Description
BornTed Jeffrey Otsuki
1951 (age 7273)
Harlingen, Texas
Nationality American
Race Japanese
Status
Penaltylife in prison with no parole
AddedJanuary 20, 1988
CaughtSeptember 4, 1988 (aged 36)
Number415
Captured

Ted Jeffrey Otsuki is an American criminal of Japanese descent from Harlingen, Texas and a former member of the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list who was added as number 415. [1] Otsuki, who had served seven years in prison in Texas for bank robbery, killed a Boston police officer, Roy Joseph Sergei (who died of his injuries 17 days later), and critically wounded another, Jorge Torres, after they came across him by mistake in an alley on October 9, 1987. At the time of the shooting Otsuki was on parole. [2]

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Disappearance and capture

Otsuki was wanted for the 1987 murder shooting of a Boston, Massachusetts police officer. [3] A murder warrant was then issued for Otsuki's arrest and capture and he was then traced by the police to the city of San Francisco, California. Otsuki was captured in Jalisco, Guadalajara on September 4, 1988 by a combined squad of both Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Mexican Federal agents. [4]

Aftermath

Otsuki was found guilty of first degree homicide and sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years without the possibility of parole. [5] [6]

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