sentenced for false report in shooting hoax

By City News Service

Aformer sheriff’s deputy who falsely claimed that he had been shot outside the Lancaster sheriff’s station was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and one year of probation Friday and was ordered to pay nearly $543,000 in restitution to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department for its massive response to the hoax.

Angel Raul Reinosa — who was a rookie deputy when he reported being shot in 2019 — was found guilty last November of a misdemeanor charge of making a false report of a crime, but acquitted of two felony counts of insurance fraud.

Reinosa, now 24, reported that he was struck in the shoulder while standing in the station’s parking lot in the 500 block of West Lancaster Boulevard on Aug. 21, 2019.