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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew Mexico woman fabricates her 10th false kidnapping claim. Cop and firefighter die during pursuit
** complicated story. basically, she steals vehicles. calls for help claiming she's in car driven by kidnapper. cops go in pursuit. This time, many cop cars in pursuit. one ended up in collision killing the cop and a retired fire fighter. ***--------------------------------------------
Jeannine Jaramillo, 46, faces charges including two counts of first-degree murder, authorities said in a news conference Saturday. After a pursuit, the Wednesday crash on Interstate 25 near Santa Fe killed Officer Robert Duran, 43, and Frank Lovato, 62. Lovato was a retired firefighter from the northern New Mexico city of Las Vegas who was driving a pickup truck and not involved with the pursuit.
Jaramillo had initially said she had been carjacked at knifepoint, according to authorities, and she was released after being treated at a hospital for injuries that were not life-threatening.
She was arrested Saturday, according to a New Mexico State Police news release, after evidence submitted to a lab Friday showed she was the sole driver of the stolen vehicle involved in the crash.
DNA found on the airbag belonged to Jaramillo and evidence showed there was only one person inside at the time of the crash, according to New Mexico State Police.
https://jg-tc.com/news/national/woman-arrested-in-crash-that-killed-2-including-officer/article_30d77ccc-3d60-5bab-b917-3249e413b1ff.html
Police had said after the crash they were searching for a suspect described by Jaramillo as a man she'd dated briefly and that he had abducted her from an apartment complex following an argument. But authorities said her story was suspiciously similar to her statement in a September 2021 case, when she reported that a man held her against her will with a knife to her neck and he hid on the floorboard.
She was charged at the time with receiving a stolen vehicle, aggravated fleeing and possession of methamphetamine, authorities said.
KOB-TV and other news outlets had reported that court documents said Jaramillo twice previously was involved in pursuits in Cibola County in September and October. She had told officers she had been carjacked but no other person was found.
Prosecutors dismissed both cases pending further investigation.
https://madison.com/news/national/woman-arrested-in-crash-that-killed-2-including-officer/article_078cc00d-3822-597f-b26e-c022a03c9ba5.html
The Cibola County Sheriffs Office charged Jaramillo after a high-speed chase in September, court records show. When she was arrested, records state, Jaramillo said a man had been holding a knife to her neck and forced her to flee.
Jaramillo told police the man had been wearing a red shirt, black pants and black hoodie, according to the report, but it is believed there was only one occupant.
Prosecutors asked the court to dismiss those charges a few weeks later, pending further investigation, but she was arrested again in October by a Cibola County detective investigating the theft of a CenturyLink bucket truck. That case was dismissed in November to allow for more investigation, court records show.
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/woman-charged-with-murder-in-crash-that-killed-santa-fe-officer-retired-firefighter/article_2feb9af4-9cd9-11ec-b592-3b9a7ed11220.html
Jaramillo told KOB 4 that she and a man she was briefly dating, Mark Lopez, were at a Santa Fe apartment complex where everything started.
"I wanted to come home and he didn't want to bring me, and it started a big argument. I was yelling for help to this one man who lived at the apartment and he did help me, he called 911," Jaramillo said.
She said he pulled out a knife and kidnapped her, leading to a chase on I-25. She said he also had a gun.
She said she was scared for her life as everything unfolded, and she blacked out briefly during the crash and doesn't remember how the suspect escaped the car.
"I crawled out the driver side window, I fell to the ground and I looked up and there was the police, and I just ran for my life, and I was screaming help me," Jaramillo said. "I'm crying, I was hysterical, I was in shock."
https://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/exclusive-alleged-kidnapping-victim-shares-story/6410317/
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New Mexico woman fabricates her 10th false kidnapping claim. Cop and firefighter die during pursuit (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Mar 2022
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alphafemale
(18,497 posts)1. Ten times?
How many times can a person call "Wolf!" and still get attention?
And her childish, "Me!Me!" starved antics got two people killed this time.
Lock her away from normal people for the rest of her pathetic life.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)2. +100 I'm with you! nt