On Wednesday at 9:40 a.m. a Mount Pleasant officer made a traffic stop at 1st Street and Madison Ave. During the stop the officer began checking the driver and occupants for warrants.
One passenger, 20-year-old Jacob Gonzalo Zambrano of Mount Pleasant, was sitting in the back seat of the car when he heard the officer checking him for warrants.
Zambrano opened the car door and ran on foot through downtown Mount Pleasant fleeing from the officer. Zambrano continued to run on foot exiting the downtown district and entered a residential neighborhood.
As officers were searching for Zambrano, Mount Pleasant Director of Community Services Jacob Hatfield saw the suspect running then hide behind a house. Hatfield saw officers running in the same direction and directed the officers to where the suspect was last seen.
Ahrens was also near the incident. He is a licensed Texas Peace Officer and is a reserve police officer with the Mount Pleasant Police Department. Ahrens prior training kicked in when he spotted the suspect hiding behind a house.
As Ahrens approached Zambrano he identified himself as an officer. Zambrano refused to cooperate and ran until Ahrens caught up with him in the 300 Blk. of N. Riddle St.
The suspect was held on the ground by Ahrens until Mount Pleasant officers arrived. Zambrano was arrested for five outstanding Mount Pleasant warrants and for evading arrest. He was transported and booked into the Titus County Jail.
Ahrens, who was city manager in Atlanta for nine years and was the assistant city manager there for two years before he took the Mount Pleasant job in 2008, has a 13-year background in law enforcement.
He received his commission as a police officer in Hereford in 1984 and rose through the ranks, serving as police chief at the Atlanta Police Department from 1995 to 1997 when he began his career in city management.
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