[4] Preciado is a career criminal who has been arrested for a 1992 murder, robbery, grand theft, and receipt of stolen property.

[4] On September 5, 2000, Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy Michael Schaap and his partner, David Timberlake, were on patrol when they saw a 1979 Chevrolet van traveling toward them.

During surgery, doctors removed the remaining fragments of the bullet from Schaap's head, leaving a small wound, a horseshoe-shaped scar on his face and his left side partially paralyzed.

[4] Three other men in the car, Carlos Albert Gutierrez, Jose Leonchio Guardado and Omar Jimenez were arrested, charged and convicted of the shooting, but the fourth man remained at large.

[3] Preciado was captured in the hills near Corral Piedras, a rural area near Yagos, in Nayarit, Mexico on July 17, 2009.

Preciado was held in the custody of Mexican federal police and transferred to Mexico City,[3] from where he was extradited to Los Angeles on January 12, 2010 in order to face trial.

During what was scheduled to be a preliminary hearing leading up to a trial, Preciado pleaded guilty to two counts of assault with a deadly weapon on peace officers, as well as the special allegation of using a firearm in a felony.