Jeffrey Contreras (Submitted Photo)
A man already being held at the Chaves County Detention Center on criminal counts in connection with one deadly shooting was charged Monday in a second death.
The Chaves County Sheriff’s Office on Monday served Jeffrey Contreras, 25, with an arrest warrant on criminal counts related to the January fatal shooting of Johnny Pacheco Jr., 22, of Roswell, Undersheriff Charles Yslas said Monday.
In Pacheco’s death, Contreras faces one count each of first-degree murder, willful and deliberate; kidnapping, first degree, no intent to commit sexual offense; robbery; tampering with evidence; and aggravated assault, deadly weapon, according to court records.