Jason Banegas, Accused Of Killing Hollywood Officer Yandy Chirino, Has Extensive Arrest Record

By Peter D'Oench, CBS Miami

October 21, 2021

A teenage suspect who is accused of shooting and killing 28-year-old Hollywood Police Officer Yandy Chirino has an extensive arrest record, according to records.

CBS4’s Peter D’Oench reports that those records show that 18-year-old Jason Banegas has been arrested at least 7 times as a juvenile, mostly for allegedly breaking into cars and grand theft, and has an arrest record that started at the age of 12.

According to one arrest report from January 9th of 2017, on the day after Christmas in 2016 Banegas and his accomplices ransacked Comstock Elementary School in N.W. Miami-Dade.

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