Ep 143: The Deputy (Tai Chan)

Court Junkie

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True Crime, News, Talk Radio, Government

4.8 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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0:00.0	Two deputies with the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Department got a break from their routine
0:05.9	everyday jobs as they left an out of town work assignment on orders to transport an inmate
0:11.9	from New Mexico to a prison in Arizona.
0:16.0	And the way back home, Jeremy Martin and Ty Chan stopped overnight at a plush resort
0:22.0	hotel near the University of New Mexico.
0:25.6	And that's where everything changed.
0:28.8	By the end of a night fueled by drinking, authorities would respond to a commotion at
0:34.2	the hotel.
0:35.7	There was chaos and confusion, hotel guests panicking.
0:40.8	Jeremy Martin lay in the lobby, shot five times in the back and the right arm.
0:47.2	Los Cruces Police didn't have time to wait for an ambulance.
0:51.1	They rushed him to the hospital where 29-year-old Jeremy soon died from his injuries.
0:58.2	Ty Chan, the other deputy who was with him that night, was charged with his murder.
1:05.4	With cameras flashing, Santa Fe County Sheriff Robert Garcia blinked back tears during
1:11.4	a press conference as local media outlets, including the Santa Fe New Mexican, began covering
1:17.9	the story as the news of Jeremy's death broke in October 2014.
1:23.6	This has been a major shock to me, say, this into my staff.
1:30.6	Yeah.
1:30.6	In my 34-year career, I would never think and hope that I would never receive that kind
1:42.2	of call, but never thought that it would be true from within my own agency.
1:52.1	Jeremy had been a patrol deputy while Ty served on the Sheriff's Investigative Unit.
1:57.6	They weren't normally partners, but fate had placed them together for the prisoner transport
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