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Drug dealer charged with murder

By DAVID MELSON - dmelson@t-g.com
Posted 8/20/22

A Shelbyville man has been charged with second-degree murder in the February death of a Bedford County resident, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday.

Michael Zambrano Baez, 21, of …

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Drug dealer charged with murder

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By DAVID MELSON - dmelson@t-g.com
A Shelbyville man has been charged with second-degree murder in the February death of a Bedford County resident, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday.
Michael Zambrano Baez, 21, of Highway 64 East was indicted Monday by the Bedford County grand jury in what the TBI described as “the drug-related death of a Bedford County resident.”
William Hallum, 21, was found dead at a Montgomery Road home on the afternoon of Feb. 26, according to the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office incident report. The arrest warrant indicates Hallum died as a result of fentanyl by itself or in combination with cocaine allegedly obtained from Zambrano.
“Zambrano has been charged with selling fentanyl twice more since February,” BCSO Det. Chris Brown said. “He’s a very bad individual, has always been a drug dealer and probably always will be.”
The TBI has been working with the BCSO for months investigating Zambrano, Brown said.
Brown spotted Zambrano pumping gas Monday at a North Main Street convenience store and notified Shelbyville police. Officers Letisia Diaz, Clint Adams and Andrew Koehler arrested Zambrano after a brief struggle.
“As officers attempted to place handcuffs on him, he tensed up and attempted to pull away,” Diaz said in her report. “Officers were able to successfully handcuff him with two sets of handcuffs without incident.”
Officers found $6,900 cash and a golf ball-sized bag containing a “white powdery substance” suspected to be fentanyl in Zambrano’s left front pocket and a folded $1 bill containing what is believed to be cocaine in his 2016 Dodge Dart, the TBI and Diaz’s report said. Brown said 50 grams of fentanyl were confiscated Monday.

Zambrano was initially booked on the murder charge plus two counts of possession of a schedule II drug and one count of resisting arrest. Two bail bondsmen later surrendered Zambrano and bond was set at $148,000.

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