Stretch of I-10 dedicated as memorial for slain officer July 16, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A stretch of Interstate 10 in Luna County in southwestern New Mexico is now a memorial corridor honoring a New Mexico State Officer gunned down by a drug trafficking suspect on Feb. 4. The State Transportation Commission voted unanimously Thursday to approve the 18-mile (29-kilometer) memorial for Officer Darian Jarrott, the Las Cruces Sun-News reported. “That strip on I-10 will always have significance and a special meaning,” state Lt. Gov. Howie Morales told the commission. Jarrott was killed near Deming while conducting a traffic stop of a pickup driven by Omar Felix Cueva, a drug trafficking suspect under investigation by federal Homeland Security Investigations.