‘Career criminal’ guilty of burglary
A jury this week found an El Dorado County man guilty of three felony counts of first-degree residential burglary and two counts of attempted burglary.
Bradley Zaun, 27, went a on a drug-induced crime spree in October and November 2013 between Single Springs and Pollock Pines. El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office called him a “career criminal”. Sentencing is set for April 10. Zaun faces 26 years in prison, as well as additional time for violation of his parole.
The two-week trial in Placerville ended Feb. 18.
Alexander Cochran, 21, has pleaded guilty to similar charges. Other suspects are awaiting trial.
According to the DA’s office, the suspects would knock on the front door of a residence and if the homeowner answered the door, the defendants would leave. If no one answered the door, the defendants would gain entry through an unlocked door or force entry. On at least one occasion the residents were home and the defendants were able to avoid arrest under voter approved Proposition 47, which allows some convicted felons to have certain drug and theft, related offenses reduced to misdemeanors, thus allowing for reduced sentences or immediate release from custody.
“The above mentioned case involves Prop. 47 and has created numerous obstacles during court proceedings,” the DA’s office said in a statement.
— Lake Tahoe News staff report
Too bad one of the homeowners didn’t dispatch this insect. Gov. Moonbutts early release of scum back into society is proven once again, he and the senile judge who ordered it are completely incompetent. But then again, the Liberals VOTED for it so, enjoy your new crime sprees. IDIOTS!!
They are released and then keep doing it and RELEASED and keep doing it and are laughing all the way! Liberal lunacy endangers the entire state when criminals are released because the law can’t hold them! These are a few of the tens of thousands ready to knock on your door or just kick it in!
BLA BLA BLA. Cut and paste makes it so easy to say the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over……
Kit says (from previous thread) “No doubt they are all here LEGALLY and fine, contributing welfare recipients and soon to get their free driver’s licenses and free education kind of people.”
This Zaun is going to get the same treatment in jail.
Well, how about sending the White Crackers back to Germany or Europe (Zaun) where they came from? LOL!
I wonder what part of mexico mr zaun is from ??
What Kits Carson said is so true, you IDIOTS that voted for Moonbutt deserve everything you get so live with it.
Old and Kit… “Moonbutts?” Is that what David Vitter calls the hookers he’s boinkin’ in Louisiana and DC? Oh, and has anybody checked the hookers ages and residence status? I guess soliciting prostitution isn’t really a crime… for a US Senator! Yep, Vitter is really “workin’ it” with those Tax Dollars! LOL!
Yeah, living with that $2.2 Trillion economy is tough; we zoomed past Italy and Russia for 7th largest economy on the Planet.
California puts in a net positive 13 cents for every Federal Tax Dollar paid, while Nevada is a net negative 10 cents. And States like Mississippi, West Virginia and Alabama are negative $1.50! Live with that… Alabama.