Criminal Admits He Shot Deputy on Way to Court

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (MCT) — The career criminal captured after a frenzied four-hour manhunt has confessed in the shooting death of a Broward County deputy, Sheriff Al Lamberti said Wednesday night.

Michael Mazza, 40, of Coral Springs, Fla., was arrested earlier Wednesday outside a Hollywood, Fla., pawn shop about four hours after Deputy Paul Rein, 76, was overpowered and slain while taking Mazza to the courthouse.

Lamberti said Mazza confessed to detectives and will be kept overnight — for his own protection — in Miami-Dade County Jail rather than in a Broward jail, where he would be overseen by Rein’s colleagues.

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