SPOKANE, Wash. -- A Mexican national who shot and injured a Spokane Police officer during a drug trafficking bust has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for shooting at law enforcement during a drug trafficking investigation.

36-year-old Israel Garcia pleaded guilty to eight counts of 1st Degree Assault for the shooting. He previously pleaded guilty to federal charges for Discharge of a Firearm During and in Relation to a Drug Trafficking Crime and Possession with Intent to Distribute 400 Grams or More of Fentanyl. Garcia was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for those charges last month and ordered to pay over $6,000 in restitution.

According to court documents, Garcia was first convicted of assault on a federal officer in 2015 related to a drug and gun trafficking investigation

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