commit a crime against a cop you go to jail forever! the system is biased toward governmet buerocrats Original Article 22-year-old shot deputies, gets 51 years Jim Walsh The Arizona Republic Jun. 21, 2005 12:00 AM MESA - A 22-year-old man was sentenced to 51 years in prison Monday for wounding two Maricopa County Sheriff's Office deputies who were shot serving a search warrant. But Judge David Talamante of Maricopa County Superior Court stopped short of handing down a 63-year maximum sentence, despite the pleas of both victims and a third deputy saved by his bulletproof vest. "I'm happy. Justice has been served. The better part of his life will be in prison," said Deputy Lew Argetsinger, who was shot through his right hand and has undergone five surgeries, with yet another planned. Jorge Luis Guerra Vargas, the defendant, told Talamante through an interpreter in Spanish that he didn't know the SWAT team members were police officers and mistook them for thieves. The deputies were searching for a Pinal County homicide suspect. Several deputies testified that they identified themselves as police in English and in Spanish when they broke through a door at a mobile home and served the warrant Dec. 16, 2004, in a county island east of Mesa. Talamante said he didn't believe Guerra Vargas' claims, and he said Guerra Vargas is lucky to be alive. Deputy Sean Pearce, who along with Argetsinger is assigned to light duty during his recovery, said he can accept the 51-year sentence but would have preferred the maximum sentence.