US District Judge George King ordered former Sgt Eric Gonzalez to be taken into custody immediately on Monday after he was convicted on a number of charges related to the 2011 beating of Gabriel Carrillo.
A former Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison for supervising the backroom beating of a jail visitor who fellow guards testified was handcuffed on the ground and covered in blood.
US District Judge George King ordered former Sgt Eric Gonzalez, 49, to be taken into custody immediately on Monday.
Gonzalez was found guilty in June of deprivation of civil rights, conspiracy to violate constitutional rights and falsification of records in the 2011 beating of Gabriel Carrillo.
Gonzalez could have received up to 12 years in prison.
Source: Ex-LA sheriff’s deputy gets 8 years for brutal beating of jail visitor

