As part of the agreement, charges against Guzman, such as drug distribution and six counts of aggravated assault, were dismissed.
Exterior view of the new Mercer County Criminal Courthouse in Trenton on South Warren St, in Trenton, New Jersey.
TRENTON - A city man who rammed a police car while trying to escape arrest in 2010 was sentenced to three years’ probation.
Joselito Guzman, 20, pleaded guilty to resisting arrest as part of a negotiated plea agreement with the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office.
As part of the agreement, charges against Guzman, such as drug distribution and six counts of aggravated assault, were dismissed.
Superior Court Judge Thomas Sumners warned Guzman that he is a young man with plenty of time to put these type of criminal activities in the past.
“You can’t erase what you did you can only deal with what you do in the future,” Sumners said. “Everything that you have done that you think you are going to get away with, it will come back to haunt you.”
Guzman was arrested after the incident in December 2010 when police tried to pull over his car, prosecutors said. Police believed Guzman had been involved in a robbery they witnessed near the intersection of Hudson Street and South Clinton Avenue and followed him with lights flashing and sirens on, prosecutors said.
Guzman refused to pull over but at some point during the pursuit stopped and backed into the police vehicle, prosecutors said.
When Guzman stopped the car on Lamberton Street and when an officer got out of the police car, Guzman allegedly began driving directly at the officer, who fired three shots, prosecutors said.
Guzman was arrested after his car crashed into a tree.
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