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SAN FERNANDO, Calif. (AP) _ Joey Buttafuoco, who gained national notoriety in the 1990s when his teenage girlfriend shot his wife in the face in New York, was sentenced to a year in county jail Tuesday after pleading no contest to a charge of being a felon illegally possessing ammunition.

Buttafuoco, 50, was ordered to report to jail on Nov. 1.

Superior Court Judge Ronald S. Coen also gave Buttafuoco three years in state prison on the felony and five years for violating terms of his probation but suspended those sentences, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office said.

The ammunition was found during a search of his Chatsworth home last August by the county Probation Department.

Buttafuoco was sentenced to a year in jail and five years probation in March 2004 after pleading guilty to insurance fraud. Prosecutors said Buttafuoco, who co-owned a San Fernando Valley auto body shop, told undercover investigators how to file false claims and cheat insurance companies.

He was running an auto body shop on New York's Long Island in 1992 when his 17-year-old lover, Amy Fisher, shot his wife as she answered the door at the couple's home.

Fisher, nicknamed the "Long Island Lolita," served seven years in prison. Buttafuoco pleaded guilty to one count of statutory rape and served four months in jail.

His wife, Mary Jo, recovered. The couple remained together after the Fisher affair, but divorced after moving to California.