Pro-defund police Dem in key race once threatened to 'kill' and 'bury' man over the phone: police records

FIRST ON FOX: An incumbent House Democrat, who is progressive successful 1 of the tightest House races successful the state successful New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District, threatened to "kill" and "bury" a chap pupil during a quality portion attending college, according to constabulary records obtained and verified by Fox News Digital.

Rep. Gabe Vasquez, portion enrolled arsenic a assemblage pupil astatine New Mexico State University, was the taxable of a constabulary study filed by different pupil that claimed Vasquez utilized the "telephone to terrify, intimidate, threat, harass" him and threatened to "kill" and "bury" him.

In the February 2005 constabulary report, obtained by Fox News Digital, Vasquez admitted to making a telephone that was construed arsenic threatening but apologized and said, according to police, helium was "very upset" implicit the information of a person of his who was suffering from intoxicant poisoning connected his day aft being pressured to portion and aboriginal died.

The unfortunate claimed successful the constabulary study that successful summation to threatening the lives of the radical involved, Vasquez utilized "several atrocious words successful Spanish."

Vasquez got disconnected with a informing aft promising not to interaction the idiosyncratic again and the substance was closed.

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Representative Gabe Vasquez, a Democrat from New Mexico, during a circuit of CN Wire Corporation successful Santa Teresa, New Mexico, connected Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. Vasquez, a Democrat presently serving New Mexico's 2nd Congressional district, is moving for re-election against erstwhile Republican Rep. Yvette Herrell, who served the territory from 2021 to 2023.  (Photographer: Justin Hamel/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Fox News Digital reached retired to the idiosyncratic who filed the ailment against Vasquez, but helium refused to talk astir the ailment and said they "conciliated" and "went connected with our lives."

In a connection to Fox News Digital, Vasquez's run manager Dylan McArthur said, "It’s bittersweet to spot Yvette Herrell stoop arsenic debased arsenic utilizing a close assemblage friend's decease from astir 20 years agone to prevarication astir the Congressman’s quality due to the fact that she is trying to distract radical from her horrible past of wanting to prohibition each termination successful the state."

Vasquez's enactment with the constabulary was not the lone clip that helium has had issues with instrumentality enforcement. 

The twelvemonth before, Vasquez reportedly had a arguable enactment successful New Mexico erstwhile helium was accused successful a constabulary study of utilizing the "n word" portion calling a erstwhile leader of his, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

Vasquez denied being the idiosyncratic who placed that telephone successful a connection to the Daily Mail saying, "I person not and would ne'er usage connection similar this, this onslaught is categorically false."

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Police records, archetypal reported by the Washington Free Beacon, besides amusement that successful 2005, Vasquez was arrested by the Las Cruces Police Department aft neighbors called successful a sound complaint. Vasquez is alleged to person attempted to flush marijuana down the toilet earlier his arrest.

Vasquez was besides progressive successful a home quality with his woman successful Las Cruces aft an statement implicit her drinking excessively much, which led constabulary to his location "in notation to a imaginable domestic." Vasquez was not arrested successful that incident, which did not see carnal violence.

It has besides been reported that Vasquez failed to look successful tribunal successful El Paso, Texas, successful 2002 for driving without security and that a warrant for his apprehension was issued successful April 2008. That warrant was yet carried retired successful March of this year, resulting successful Vasquez posting a astir $900 currency enslaved and pleading nary contest, the Washington Free Beacon reported. 

Vasquez is moving against erstwhile New Mexico Congresswoman Yvette Herrell successful a contention the Cook Political Report ranks arsenic a "Democrat flip up."

"Threats to termination and hide idiosyncratic should not beryllium glossed over," Herrell told Fox News Digital successful a statement. "This is highly unsafe and unhinged behaviour from Gabe Vasquez, and helium owes New Mexico’s Second District an contiguous mentation and apology."

Under the backdrop of Vasquez’s run-ins with constabulary departments successful New Mexico and Texas, the congressman has advocated for policies that defund constabulary departments.

Vasquez appeared connected a section quality station seemingly dressed successful disguise during the 2020 George Floyd unrest and said, "It's not conscionable astir defunding police, it's astir defunding a strategy that privileges White radical implicit everyone else." 

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Rep. Gabe Vasquez. (Getty Images)

Vasquez antecedently vowed helium would "fully support" cutting successful fractional the constabulary fund of Las Cruces, wherever helium served connected the metropolis council, Fox News Digital antecedently reported.

"I wholeheartedly and perfectly enactment constabulary betterment and the #blacklivesmatter movement, and volition not beryllium stopping abbreviated of transformational betterment that brings justness to our metropolis and to radical of colour successful our community. You tin number connected my support," Vasquez wrote to a constituent demanding "at least" a 50% simplification of the Las Cruces constabulary section budget.

In a connection to Fox News Digital successful 2022, Vasquez said, "I reason defunding the police. As a Las Cruces Councilmember, I repeatedly voted to summation backing for the constabulary and partnered with them, portion supporting communal consciousness reforms." 

"Gabe Vasquez has a agelong way grounds of utmost verbal abuse," NRCC spokeswoman Delanie Bomar told Fox News Digital. "Between calling a erstwhile workfellow the n-word and present this, it's precise wide that Gabe is not acceptable to service successful nationalist office, and helium does not correspond New Mexico values."

Fox News Digital’s Brandon Gillespie contributed to this report