Manuel Hurtado Tapia

Death by Force

In the border town of Nogales, Arizona, a routine traffic stop on the evening of January 7, 1991, tragically escalated, leading to the death of a veteran law enforcement officer. Sergeant Manuel Hurtado Tapia, a 41-year-old male with the Arizona Department of Public Safety, pulled over a vehicle driven by a man suspected of being a drug trafficker.

As Sergeant Tapia and a Nogales police officer approached the vehicle, the driver, identified as Noel Gonzales-Bernal of Nogales, Sonora, Mexi ...Read More

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