CO - Former sheriff's deputy arrested after fleeing to Mexico for child sex crimes - Telluride, Oct 2025

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Former San Miguel Deputy on the run Caught in Mexico, Transferred to Arizona | Colorado Bureau of Investigation

October 3, 2025 – CBI – Telluride, CO – The Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) can confirm Mr. Jesus Damian Nieblas, a former deputy with the San Miguel County Sheriff’s Office, has been taken into custody. Nieblas was apprehended by Mexican authorities in the border town of Agua Prieta...

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October 3, 2025 – CBI – Telluride, CO – The Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) can confirm Mr. Jesus Damian Nieblas, a former deputy with the San Miguel County Sheriff’s Office, has been taken into custody. Nieblas was apprehended by Mexican authorities in the border town of Agua Prieta, Mexico and was transferred to the custody of the U.S. Marshals at the border checkpoint near Douglas, Arizona.

 

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Prior to the investigation, Nieblas worked as a code enforcement officer with the Telluride Marshal's Office before being hired by the San Miguel Sheriff's Office on Aug. 1, 2020, as a patrol deputy, according to a spokeswoman for the sheriff's office.

He served as a school resource officer for the Norwood School District but was removed from that position for "misuse of his Taser in front of several students while horseplaying with an adult friend (wrestling coach at the school)," the spokeswoman said.
Former Colorado deputy and school officer accused of child sex crimes arrested in Mexico after months on the run

he faces:

1 count of sexual exploitation of a child, a class 3 felony
11 counts of sexual exploitation of a child, a class 4 felony
16 counts of sexual exploitation of a child, a class 5 felony
27 counts of persons required to report child abuse or neglect, a misdemeanor

Nieblas is currently being held at the Cochise County Jail in Bisbee, Arizona on a $100,000 cash-only bond
Former San Miguel Deputy on the run Caught in Mexico, Transferred to Arizona | Colorado Bureau of Investigation