An Anaheim man sentenced as an adult for murder five years ago when he was 15 yet was somehow already out on parole was busted on weapons charges in Las Cruces, New Mexico, last week.
As part of his parole, Zachariah
I. Ramirez, 20, was not supposed to leave Orange County.
But the Las Cruces Police Department received a tip that he might be in
town, possibly at Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant.
Officers found him at the bar there Thursday and took him outside, where he told them about the loaded .38-caliber handgun in
his waistband.
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He was later charged with being a fugitive
from justice, carrying a deadly weapon in a liquor establishment,
possession of a firearm by a felon and illegal possession of a deadly
weapon
This weekend, he was being held without bond in a Las Cruces detention center pending extradition to
Santa Ana.
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.
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