OTERO COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) –An Otero County Sheriff’s Office deputy is now facing a first-degree murder charge after fatally ...

(January 14, 2025): The Otero County Sheriff's Office says that Diaz was placed on administrative leave last June. A spokesperson said that Diaz fully cooperated with the independent New Mexico ...

Staff Reports The murder case against Otero County Sheriff’s Deputy Jacob Diaz-Austin will proceed after a court ruling issued Thursday. Diaz-Austin was charged with first-degree… ...

An inmate who escaped from a Colorado hospital after overpowering a deputy should be considered "armed and extremely dangerous," police say. The Otero County Sheriff’s Office issued an alert ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – A district court judge has ruled there is enough evidence to move forward with a murder case against an Otero County sheriff’s deputy. In June of 2024, Deputy Jacob Diaz ...

Mar. 14—An Alamogordo judge on Friday found sufficient evidence to charge an Otero County sheriff's deputy with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a boy outside Mescalero in June.