Posted on 02/07/2021 12:06:03 AM PST by nickcarraway
The man who police say shot and killed a New Mexico State Police officer during a traffic stop outside Deming on Thursday was on his way to Las Cruces for a drug deal.
Omar Felix Cueva, 39, was pulled over in his white Chevrolet pickup truck heading eastbound on Interstate 10 as part of an operation by State Police and Homeland Security Investigations.
Police say he fired at least one shot, killing Officer Darian Jarrott, before leading other officers on a chase, firing at them and blowing through a tire deflation device.
About 30 miles from where developments began, he shot a Las Cruces Police Department officer and multiple officers fired back, killing him. The LCPD officer was treated at a hospital in El Paso and released later that evening.
Roxanne Garcia-McElmell, a spokeswoman for the 3rd Judicial District Attorney’s Office in Doña Ana County, said they were told the suspect was wearing a bulletproof vest. A State Police spokesman has since said that’s not true.
It wasn’t the first time Cueva was reportedly involved in a high-speed chase during a drug transaction.
In September 2010, he was federally charged with possession with intent to distribute crystal methamphetamine in California. According to an article in the San Diego Union Tribune, Cueva and two other men led police on a chase – at times exceeding 100 miles per hour – on the interstate before crashing into a fence and fleeing into a nearby ravine.
The men were eventually arrested, and found to have a loaded assault rifle and a duffel bag containing 15 pounds of methamphetamine, worth about $252,000, according to the article.
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Article does not state Cueva’s nationality.... if he was still alive and from outside USA, would he qualify for Biden’s dreamer program?
In BuyDen World, being alive has little to do with anything important like voting so I’d suppose Cueva can be declared a Dreamer as a post-mortem process. Stroke of the pen, law of the land and all that Obama rot...
nothing to see here just another Biteme supporter.
He got what all of them should get
Biden’s fault. We’re going back to failed policies and more people will die. I hate leftists.
Prayers up for officer Jarrott’s family.
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