Why is Officer Nero put through a farce trial, and yet this criminal was allowed out after years of violent crime to kill a police officer?
AUBURN (CBS/AP) — The man who killed an Auburn police officer early Sunday morning had an extensive criminal record, had served time in a maximum-security prison, and had attacked police officers in the past.
State officials said 35-year-old Jorge Zambrano had been released from the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, a maximum-security prison, on Nov. 1, 2013, after serving time on a list of charges, including cocaine trafficking, two counts of assault and battery on a police officer, two counts of resisting arrest, and selling, using or possessing a firearm silencer.
Zambrano shot and killed Officer Ronald Tarentino during a routine traffic stop in Auburn early Sunday morning. Zambrano was killed after exchanging gunfire with Mass. State Troopers in an Oxford apartment 18 hours later.
WBZ-TV dug into Zambrano’s lengthy criminal history and found this wasn’t the first time he attacked police officers.
In 2011, he pleaded guilty to cocaine trafficking and punching, kicking, and pulling a knife on a Worcester Police officer.
Then, in January 2016, Zambrano was charged with assault and battery after a police officer said Zambrano grabbed his uniform and pulled him into his car with a large pit bull inside. WBZ NewsRadio 1030’s Lana Jones reported that case was continued without a finding after Zambrano admitted to sufficient facts.