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Federal Homeland Security agents knew Omar Cueva was an armed and dangerous career criminal on a drug run on Feb. 4. Heck, he was on his way to sell drugs to an undercover federal agent.
What’s unclear is what State Police Officer Darian Jarrott knew about Cueva when he pulled him over along Interstate 10 in southern New Mexico that fateful day.
A tort claim notice filed on behalf of Jarrott’s family claims Homeland Security agents sent an unsuspecting Jarrott to his death by not letting him know Cueva was dangerous.
Indeed, it’s clear from the chilling video from Jarrott’s dashboard and lapel cameras that he had no idea he was walking into a deadly confrontation when he pulled over Cueva on Interstate 10 near Deming for having window tint that was too dark.
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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.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. State Police Officer Leonel Palomares had a bad feeling on that February morning as he and Officer Alfonso Montez waited along Interstate 10.
The two had been tasked with stopping Omar Cueva, a suspected drug trafficker who Homeland Security Investigations had warned Palomares was “paranoid” and carrying a rifle and large amount of meth.
The two rehearsed the traffic stop before they heard a fellow officer, Darian Jarrott, had stopped Cueva instead. Within minutes they learned Jarrott had been shot and Cueva was headed their way.
Palomares suggested they set up spike strips.
Montez disagreed, saying they should try to take Cueva out because he had just shot Jarrott, had “no regard for human life” and “based on his criminal history.”
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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