Anthony Jacob Chavez, Booking photo (Deming) – Albuquerque police say a former Deming resident described as an alleged probation violator threatened a deputy U.S. marshal with a BB gun before the deputy marshal shot him.
The July 2nd shooting happened when a Marshals Service task force that included a deputy marshal and Albuquerque police officers tried to serve a federal arrest warrant on Anthony Jacob Chavez at his Albuquerque home.
The Albuquerque Police Department is leading the investigation into the shooting, and the Albuquerque Journal reports that police disclosed Tuesday that Chavez had a BB gun and threatened the officer.
Chavez was wanted for absconding from federal probation. He was on supervised release for a guilty plea to transporting undocumented immigrants in the United States – a conviction that resulted from a 2010 arrest here in Luna County.
APD spokeswoman Janet Blair said police didn’t learn until after the shooting that the gun Chavez had pointed at the deputy was a BB gun.
It took APD two weeks to release the information. Blair said that’s because APD officials believed it should come from the Marshals Service since it involved that agency’s deputy.
Meanwhile, Marshals Service officials had requested in a July 8 email that APD Chief Gorden Eden not release information about the shooting.
The July 2nd shooting happened when a Marshals Service task force that included a deputy marshal and Albuquerque police officers tried to serve a federal arrest warrant on Anthony Jacob Chavez at his Albuquerque home.
The Albuquerque Police Department is leading the investigation into the shooting, and the Albuquerque Journal reports that police disclosed Tuesday that Chavez had a BB gun and threatened the officer.
Chavez was wanted for absconding from federal probation. He was on supervised release for a guilty plea to transporting undocumented immigrants in the United States – a conviction that resulted from a 2010 arrest here in Luna County.
APD spokeswoman Janet Blair said police didn’t learn until after the shooting that the gun Chavez had pointed at the deputy was a BB gun.
It took APD two weeks to release the information. Blair said that’s because APD officials believed it should come from the Marshals Service since it involved that agency’s deputy.
Meanwhile, Marshals Service officials had requested in a July 8 email that APD Chief Gorden Eden not release information about the shooting.
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