To date, twenty-seven New Mexico State Police officers have lost their lives in the line of duty.  To learn more about them, follow the links below.

 

WALTER GRANGE TABER, 1937 JOSE “JOE” FRANCISCO QUINTANA, 1944
MACKIE C'DE BACA, 1944 LESLIE DELBERT BUGG, 1946
WILLIAM “BILL” THOMAS SPEIGHT, 1949 NASH PHILLIP GARCIA, 1952
JOHN “JAKE” RAMSEY JR., 1953 JOE TAYLOR AVEN JR., 1953
ROBERT EARL LEE, 1960 JAMES EDWARD CLARK, 1960
BENNIE DELL WILLIAMS, 1963 ANTONIO JARAMILLO, 1965
ROBERT SETH ROMERO, 1967 ROBERT ROSENBLOOM, 1971
DAVID COKER, 1979 RICHARD GOMEZ, 1980
JOSEPH ROBERT EVETTS, 1982 LOWELL D. HOWARD, 1984
DAVID M. SMITH, 1984 MANUEL OLIVAS, 1985
SHERMAN L. TOLER, 1986 WAYNE G. ALLISON, 1988
GLEN HUBER, 1991 ARTHUR EUGENE ARCHIBEQUE, 1993
LLOYD ARAGON, 2001 ROBERT RAMON SOLIS, 2001
DAMON TALBOTT, 2001

 

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