SANTA ANA – A 29-year-old man on probation for resisting a police officer has been charged with multiple felonies after he grabbed a Fountain Valley police officer’s gun, fired a round, and bit a police sergeant as officers were trying to arrest him for refusing to obey repeated orders to leave the Fountain Valley Police Department’s lobby last week. No one was injured by the gunfire.
Walter Corea Sanchez, 29, of Fountain Valley, has been charged with one felony count of assault with a semiautomatic firearm on a peace officer, one felony count of aggravated assault on a peace officer, two felony counts of obstructing or resisting an executive officer, one felony count of grossly negligent discharge of a firearm, one misdemeanor count of resisting a public officer with attempted firearm removal, one misdemeanor count of resisting a peace officer, and one misdemeanor count of disturbing the peace. He has pleaded not guilty.
Sanchez faces a maximum sentence of 31 years and eight months in state prison if convicted on all charges. He is currently on felony probation after he pled guilty in August to resisting an executive officer…