SOUTHLAND : Suspect in Berkeley Killing Arrested
Enrique Zambrano, charged in the slaying of Berkeley Waterfront Commissioner Luis Reyna and the savage beatings of a Berkeley couple last year, has been arrested in Palm Springs, the FBI reported today.
FBI spokesman Chuck Latting said in San Francisco that Zambrano and his girlfriend, Celebration Oberman, were taken into custody by FBI agents and local police Monday.
Zambrano is accused in the July 18, 1988, slaying of Reyna, whose decapitated, handless corpse was found by a hiker in the hills of nearby Lafayette on July 26, 1988.
The two had been friends, but had a falling-out after Reyna served as the key witness against Zambrano in connection with the near-fatal attacks on Berkeley Prof. Robert Mishell and his wife, Barbara. Reyna told police Zambrano confessed the Jan. 31, 1988, attacks to him.
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