New details emerge about ‘violent criminal’ who died in shootout after killing NMSP officer

DEMING, New Mexico -- New details emerged Friday about a man described as a "violent criminal" who died in a shootout with numerous law enforcement agencies after gunning down a New Mexico State Police Officer.
Authorities on Friday released a mugshot of 39-year-old Omar Felix Cueva, whom the state police chief indicated had a "violent criminal history that included drug trafficking and other felonies" in California.
A state police official on Friday provided ABC-7 with a lengthy list of Cueva's convictions. It showed his first arrest at age 13 for vandalism, repeated drug possession in his teens and drug trafficking at 21, culminating in possession with intent to distribute crystal meth at age 29.
The complete list of crimes for which he was found guilty included:
- 06/1994 Vandalism
- 06/2000 Possession of a controlled substance
- 09/2001 Possession of Controlled substance
- 10/2002 Importation of a controlled substance
- 4/2004 Importation of Cocaine
- 8/2006 Fictitious Check, False check, Burglary
- 3/2007 Probation Violation
- 3/2008 Import of a controlled substance
- 9/2010 Possession with intent of Crystal Meth or ICE
Cueva shot and killed 28-year-old Officer Darian Jarrott during a traffic stop on Thursday in Deming along Interstate 10 and drove off, authorities said. It sparked a chase that ended in a highway shootout 30 miles later in Las Cruces, during which Cueva died.
A Homeland Security Investigations official, in a statement to ABC-7 on Friday, said Jarrott was among a group of NMSP officers on Thursday who "were assisting HSI special agents in an enforcement operation in Deming related to an ongoing narcotics investigation."
U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Leticia Zamarripa indicated their investigation was "targeting transnational criminal organizations" operating in New Mexico and Texas, but she declined to elaborate further on the specifics of Thursday's probe that led to the deadly traffic stop.
NMSP Chief Robert Thornton said at a news conference late Thursday night that Cueva was believed to have been headed to a drug deal at the time he was stopped by Jarrott and opened fire on the officer.
The chief wouldn't comment on quantities of drugs or weapons seized from Cueva's pickup truck following the shootout. He also didn't say what, if anything, turned up during a search of Cueva's Deming area home on Thursday night.
Flags across the state flew at half-staff on Friday in the slain officer's honor. Jarrott's body was carried in a police motorcade procession Friday evening from the state Medical Investigator's Office in Albuquerque to a funeral home in Deming.
To the police officer, R.I.P. May God bless your soul and protect your family.
To the suspect, hope you rot in hell.
If there were any such thing as “hell” this piece of garbage would surely rot in it.
RIP Officer, God watch over his family
Why is kvia plastering his mugshot on the news? He doesn’t deserve any recognition?
Instead they should be posting the victim.
Bad journalism.
Glad law enforcement put him down with prejudice like the slimeball he was.
Put him down with predujice? Lol. K1dprs verbatim. Hope they deal with white law breakers in the same manner. With prejudice.
But wait, yesterday you referred to him as white, remember? You need to walk that back
And add a little more if they are white.
White = bad
Yet the perp was def8nitely hispanic, your people as you like to say. Racist much? You like to claim that europeans need to go back to europe. Does that mean you will be moving to spain? Cause thats where your roots are
Whats funny here is that you think you are hurting us by slinging your racist slander around, but you’re not. We see you for the ignorant uneducated parasite that you are and we laugh at you. Most of us know that there is good and bad in all races. Most of us dont judge us by the color of their skin. Only the bad in each race does that, like you. Have a nice day parasite
You’re right Jeff but democrats don’t think like that. They make all of their decisions based on hate and identity politics.
fero BROWN SHIT STAIN = ….. BROWN SHIT STAIN! Your mamma should of taken it down the throat instead of up the arroyo!! POChit