![]() ![]() Investigators learned through HSI that there were two plans of action for the Feb. Palomares said the stop was canceled after Cueva sold all the narcotics to an undercover agent. He had been briefed by State Police Sgt. Sean Wood on Cueva's background and was told he needed a second officer with him during the stop. Palomares told investigators he had originally been asked to stop Cueva on Jan. Huerta said the plan was still for Officer Palomares to make the stop and he did not "know where the breakdown in information happened" or why Jarrott made the traffic stop. Madrid told him "his guys would be available." 3, Huerta told investigators, Cueva was back in Deming and HSI reached out to State Police Sgt. Mark Madrid for assistance in a possible traffic stop. 2 as Cueva was traveling on I-10 between Arizona and New Mexico.īy Feb. 4 and HSI chose State Police Officer Leonel Palomares, a K-9 officer, to make a "high-risk" stop and gave him "full disclosure" on "everything they knew about Cueva." Meanwhile, HSI sent out a "be on the lookout" advisory on Feb. HSI planned to arrest him at the next deal, but that was canceled after Cueva had to go to Arizona to resupply.Ĭueva said he could meet to sell 5 pounds of meth on Feb. The undercover agent tried to buy the rifle from Cueva, but he declined, saying it was for "protection" as he had been set up before. Cueva was acting paranoid, took a photo of surveillance vehicles, and was armed with a fully loaded Ak-47 rifle," the report states. 28, an undercover HSI agent met Cueva at a truck stop in Las Cruces and bought a pound of methamphetamine and 4,000 fentanyl pills. HSI Agent Hector Huerta, an acting supervisor for the Deming Office, told investigators that, a few weeks before the shooting, a confidential informant tipped them off to Cueva and "how he wanted to sell a large amount of narcotics." He said that, on Jan. The 28-year-old father of three, with a fourth child on the way, was the first State Police officer shot and killed in the line of duty in more than 30 years.Īccording to New Mexico State Police incident reports: (New Mexico State Police)Ī ranking agent with HSI told State Police investigators he knew there was a plan to have State Police pull over Cueva between Deming and Las Cruces "if the opportunity came." If not, the 39-year-old would have been busted by multiple HSI agents in armored vehicles when he met up to sell the meth.Īgents told State Police investigators they knew Cueva was armed and had told them he "was not going back to jail." Cueva was killed in a gunfight with authorities in Las Cruces shortly after he killed Jarrott.ĭocuments released Friday by State Police detail HSI's undercover operation into Cueva and the events leading up to the killing of Jarrott on Feb. Officer Darian Jarrott was killed in the line of duty Feb. ![]()
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