New Mexico DOJ announces search of former Jeffrey Epstein property Zorro Ranch

The New Mexico Department of Justice connected Monday announced a hunt of Zorro Ranch, a spot erstwhile owned by Jeffrey Epstein.

"At the absorption of Attorney General Torrez, the New Mexico Department of Justice initiated a hunt this greeting of the Zorro Ranch spot antecedently owned by Jeffrey Epstein, with the New Mexico State Police and Sandoval County Sheriff’s Office providing assistance," a section spokesperson noted successful a connection connected Monday.

"This hunt is portion of the transgression probe announced by the New Mexico Department of Justice connected February 19th into allegations of amerciable enactment astatine Epstein’s ranch anterior to Epstein’s 2019 death. The New Mexico Department of Justice appreciates the practice of the existent spot owners successful granting entree for the hunt and extends its acknowledgment to the ranch unit for their professionalism," the connection explained.

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Jeffrey Epstein mugshot from 2019 aft national authorities filed trafficking charges against him.  (Kypros/Getty Images)

"We impulse the nationalist to delight enactment distant from the country and crushed immoderate drone enactment adjacent to debar interfering with the ongoing instrumentality enforcement operation. The New Mexico Department of Justice volition proceed to support the nationalist appropriately informed, enactment the survivors, and travel the facts wherever they lead," the connection added.

Authorities said Epstein died by termination portion incarcerated successful Manhattan successful 2019.

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In an aerial view, Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch is shown connected March 8, 2026, extracurricular of Santa Fe, New Mexico. (Roberto E. Rosales/Getty Images)

The spot was sold by Epstein’s property successful 2023 — with proceeds going toward creditors — to the household of Don Huffines, a campaigner successful Texas for authorities comptroller who won the Republican superior past week.

Last month, the New Mexico Department of Justice noted that the authorities lawyer wide had ordered the reopening of a transgression probe.

"Upon reviewing accusation precocious released by the U.S. Department of Justice, Attorney General Raúl Torrez has ordered that the transgression probe into allegations of amerciable enactment astatine Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch beryllium reopened. Although the State of New Mexico’s anterior probe was closed successful 2019 astatine the petition of the U.S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, revelations outlined successful the antecedently sealed FBI files warrant further examination," the section noted successful the February statement.

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Attorney General of New Mexico Raúl Torrez speaks during a rally organized by Accountable Tech and Design It For Us to clasp tech and societal media companies accountable for taking steps to support kids and teens online connected Jan. 31, 2024 successful Washington, D.C.  (Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Accountable Tech)

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"Special agents and prosecutors astatine the New Mexico Department of Justice volition beryllium seeking contiguous entree to the complete, unredacted national lawsuit record and mean to enactment collaboratively with our instrumentality enforcement partners arsenic good arsenic the Epstein Truth Commission precocious established by the New Mexico Legislature. As with immoderate imaginable transgression matter, we volition travel the facts wherever they lead, cautiously measure jurisdictional considerations, and instrumentality due investigative action, including the postulation and preservation of immoderate applicable grounds that remains available. We are moving rapidly and deliberately connected this contented and volition supply updates arsenic appropriate," the connection added.

The Associated Press contributed to this report