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Editor s note: In the video player above is NMSP drone footage of the chase and shootout of the drug trafficker who killed an officer. It was obtained by ABC-7 through a public records request. Warning that some may find the video graphic or disturbing.)
LORDSBURG, New Mexico Federal officials arranged with New Mexico State Police to make a traffic stop of a drug trafficker. But an officer not briefed on the plan was fatally shot when he pulled over the man instead of others who were waiting to make the stop.
That s according to state police records from the investigation into Officer Darian Jarrott s Feb. 4 death along Interstate 10 east of Lordsburg. Those records were first obtained by the Albuquerque Journal newspaper.
Report: Slain officer wasn t part of plan to stop suspect
April 24, 2021
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) Federal officials arranged with New Mexico State Police to make a traffic stop of a drug trafficker. But an officer not briefed on the plan was fatally shot when he pulled over the man instead of others who were waiting to make the stop, the Albuquerque Journal reported.
State Police records from the investigation into Officer Darian Jarrott s Feb. 4 death along Interstate 10 east of Lordsburg said the trafficker, Omar Cueva, called a Homeland Security Investigations undercover agent minutes after Jarrott was killed to say he had been pulled over by police but “”did not give them a chance, the Journal reported.
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Officer Darian Jarrott’s lapel camera shows the first Homeland Security agents arrive at the scene after the officer was fatally shot by Omar Cueva on Feb. 4. (SOURCE: New Mexico State Police)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Minutes after Omar Cueva shot and killed New Mexico State Police Officer Darian Jarrott along Interstate 10, he called an undercover agent with Homeland Security Investigations to tell him he had been pulled over by the police. Cueva told the agent he “did not give them a chance” and still wanted to meet up to sell the agent 5 pounds of methamphetamine.
Meanwhile, the agent received word that an officer had been killed.