Deputy faces assault, animal cruelty charges - Silvercity Daily Press

Deputy faces assault, animal cruelty charges - Silvercity Daily Press

A Grant County sheriff’s deputy is scheduled to appear in court this morning for a preliminary examination on four charges of aggravated assault on a peace officer and extreme cruelty to animals after a fellow deputy reported the man had killed a baby rabbit and pointed his stun gun and his firearm at the deputy in several incidents in August. According to the affidavit of arrest warrant for Deputy Alejandro Gomez filed Feb. 14 in Grant County M…