Wednesday, May 25, 2016

MASSACHUSETTS COP KILLER KILLED IN SHOOTOUT WITH POLICE

Jorge Zambrano had a lengthy criminal record, having been released from prison in 2013 after serving time for trafficking in cocaine, assault and battery on a police officer and other charges

Associated Press
May 23, 2016

AUBURN, Mass. -- The manhunt for a suspect accused of fatally shooting a Massachusetts police officer has come to a violent end.

Authorities say 35-year-old Jorge Zambrano was shot to death Sunday evening at a duplex in Oxford after exchanging gunfire with police and wounding a state trooper. The trooper is an 18-year veteran and former U.S. Navy Seal. He's expected to survive.

Officials say the manhunt ended nearly 18 hours after Zambrano fatally shot Officer Ronald Tarentino during a traffic stop early Sunday morning in Auburn.

The 42-year-old Tarentino was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He had been with the Auburn police force for two years, and before that worked with the Leicester Police Department in his hometown. He leaves behind a wife and three children.

Zambrano had a lengthy criminal record, having been released from prison in 2013 after serving time for trafficking in cocaine, assault and battery on a police officer and other charges

Zambrano was sentenced in 2011 on a list of charges that also included assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, resisting arrest, and selling, using or possessing a firearm silencer.

State officials said he was released from a maximum-security prison in Shirley, Massachusetts, on Nov. 1, 2013.

EDITOR’S NOTE: What I cannot fathom is that Zambrano served only two years with that shitload full of serious charges.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It's called Good Time. 3 for 1. 15 year stretch is 5 as long as you behave in jail. Time served awaiting trial also gets Good Time.