Ted Otsuki | |
Charge: | murder of a Boston police officer |
Birth Name: | Ted Jeffrey Otsuki |
Birth Place: | Harlingen, Texas |
Nationality: | American |
Race: | Japanese |
Conviction Penalty: | life in prison with no parole |
Added Date: | January 20, 1988 |
Caught Date: | September 4, 1988 (aged 36) |
Number: | 415 |
Status: | 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]
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]
Otsuki was found guilty of first degree homicide and sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years without the possibility of parole.[5] [6]