A Joliet man was arrested for a third time since he was charged last year with wounding a man in a shooting on North Raynor Avenue.
About 6 a.m. Tuesday, officers responded to a residence in the 1000 block of North Raynor Avenue for a report of a domestic disturbance, police said.
Officers arrived and determined that Jesus Zambrano and his sister Daniella Zambrano, 28, both battered his girlfriend, police said.
Zambrano and his girlfriend became involved in an argument and he “grew angry and began punching the victim about the head and body,” police said.
“Jesus strangled the victim with both hands, causing her to lose consciousness,” police said.
When the woman regained consciousness, she attempted to use her smartwatch to call 911, police said.
When Daniella Zambrano realized the woman was calling 911, she attacked her by “pulling her hair and punching her in the face,” police said.
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The woman was able to run out of the house as officers arrived.
When officers attempted to arrest Jesus Zambrano, he resisted by attempting to pull away from them, police said.
Officers eventually took Zambrano into custody.
Daniella Zambrano was arrested and released on her own recognizance.
Jesus Zambrano was booked into the Will County jail for a third time in less than a year.
He was arrested June 16 in connection with a gun attack that left a man with a gunshot wound to the groin, police said.
Zambrano’s bond was set at $500,000. Judge Carmen Goodman lowered it to $100,000 and he posted 10% of that amount for his release July 30.
Zambrano was then arrested and charged with the Oct. 30 harassment and assault of the man whom he was charged with shooting.
Goodman lowered Zambrano’s $500,000 bond to $150,000 and allowed $10,000 he already posted previously to go toward his bond. He was released from jail Jan. 12.
Goodman also denied a motion from prosecutors to schedule a hearing on the source of Zambrano’s bond money. Prosecutors filed the motion that alleged Zambrano planned to sell devices that turn pistols into machine guns.
Zambrano was previously sentenced to 45 years in prison after a jury found him guilty in 2013 of killing Robert Gooch in 2009 by shooting him in the head. He then won an appeal from the 3rd District Appellate Court and a jury in a 2019 trial found him not guilty of killing Gooch.
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