From: Lauren Friday, Gcmber DB, 2015 1134 PM Subject: News Release: CLIENTS MM-ul SENTENCED TD 5 TEARS IN PRISGN FDR. PDIHTIHG LASER AT FRESNO PDLICE uf ?i'iice cf the United States Eastern District at Califcrnia United States Benjamin B. Wagner RELEASE LAUREN ?1 :bber {19.2315 PHONE: 1' f? 1. MAN SENTENCED TD 5 IN PRISDH FDR FDINTING LASER AT FRESND PDLIEE HELICDFTER FRESHD, Caiif. [in Thursday, United States District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill sentenced Sergic Patrick Redriguez, cf Clbyis, be a term bf fiye years in federal prisbn aiming a laser pcinter at a law enforcement aircraft in 2U12. This is the seccnd time that Rodriguez has been sentenced far this crime. Rbdriguez was cbnyicted by a federal jury after a three-day trial in Fresnc in December 2t] 13. At the criginai sentencing, Judge D?Heili described Redriguez as a ?walking crime spree" and sentenced him tb 14 years in priscn. cheyer, Rbdriguez? sentence was vacated an appeal, and at re-sentencing, he faced a maximum sentence bf five years. In impcsing the maximum sentence, Judge D?Neili fccused an the grayity cf the cffense ccmmitted by endangering an aircraft in flight.