SPOKANE, Wash. – The United States Department of Justice announced that a man charged for shooting at Spokane police officers and selling more than 400 grams of fentanyl in October 2022 has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.

36-year-old Israel Garcia, who received the sentence, was also ordered to pay over $6,000 to the Spokane Police Department and was placed on a period of five years of supervised release if he returned to the United States after serving his sentence.

The United States Department of Justice said that Garcia was originally from Mexico. Garcia later became a documented gang member living in Yakima, where he was convicted in 2015 for assaulting police officers relating to a drug and firearm trafficking investigation.

A judge release him to 84 months in federal

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