Ted Jeffrey Otsuki

{{Short description|American criminal (born 1951)}}

{{Infobox FBI Ten Most Wanted

| name = Ted Otsuki

| image =Ted Jeffery Otsuki (FBI).jpg

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| charge = murder of a Boston police officer

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| birth_name = Ted Jeffrey Otsuki

| birth_place = Harlingen, Texas

| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1951}}

| nationality = American

| race = Japanese

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| conviction_penalty = life in prison with no parole

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| added_date = January 20, 1988

| caught_date = September 4, 1988 (aged 36)

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| number = 415

| status = Captured

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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.{{Cite web|title=COMMONWEALTH vs. TED JEFFERY OTSUKI|url=https://law.justia.com/cases/massachusetts/supreme-court/volumes/411/411mass218.html|access-date=2020-12-28|website=Justia Law|language=en}} Otsuki—who had served seven years in Leavenworth Prison, Kansas,{{Cite news |last=Basken |first=Paul A. |date=May 17, 1989 |title=Jury convicts bank robber in slaying of police officer |url=https://www.upi.com/amp/Archives/1989/05/17/Jury-convicts-bank-robber-in-slaying-of-police-officer/1009611380800/ |access-date=April 2, 2025 |work=United Press International |quote=Otsuki was on parole at the time from the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., where he was sentenced to 15 years on bank robbery charges.}} 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 encountered him in an alley (in the midst of responding to another unrelated domestic dispute dispatch) on October 9, 1987. At the time of the shooting, Otsuki was on parole.{{Cite web|title=Jury convicts bank robber in slaying of police officer|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/05/17/Jury-convicts-bank-robber-in-slaying-of-police-officer/1009611380800/|access-date=2020-12-28|website=UPI|language=en}}

Disappearance and capture

Otsuki was wanted for the 1987 murder of a Boston, Massachusetts police officer and the shooting of another. He mistakenly thought they were chasing him from his home.{{Cite web |last=Basken |first=Paul |date=1989-05-17 |title=FBI Arrests Fugitive Wanted For Killing Boston Police Officer |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/05/17/Jury-convicts-bank-robber-in-slaying-of-police-officer/1009611380800/ |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=UPI.com}} 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.{{Cite web|title=415. Ted Jeffery Otsuki|url=https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/topten-history/hires_images/FBI-415-TedJeffreyOtsuki.jpg/view|access-date=2020-12-19|website=Federal Bureau of Investigation|language=en-us}}

Aftermath

Otsuki was found guilty of first degree homicide and sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years without the possibility of parole.{{Cite web|date=2011-03-21|title=Chat with a cop killer|url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2011/03/21/chat-with-a-cop-killer/|access-date=2020-12-28|website=Boston Herald|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|date=2017-06-19|title=Ted Jeffrey Otsuki FBI Most Wanted|url=https://mycrimelibrary.com/ted-jeffrey-otsuki-fbi-most-wanted/|access-date=2020-12-28|website=My Crime Library|language=en-CA}}

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