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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A man charged with killing a sheriff's deputy was armed with a knife and a machete when he was arrested in January, according to search warrant returns.
No firearms were found on Roberto Miramontes Roman when he was arrested in Beaver in the fatal shooting of Millard County Deputy Josie Greathouse Fox.
But police found three rifle shell casings in the 1995 Cadillac Deville that the 37-year-old Fox tried to pull over just before her death, the warrants show.
Roman, who was driving the car, is accused of selling drugs to Fox's brother, Ryan Greathouse, on a desert road east of Delta on Jan. 5.
Prosecutors contend Roman, 37, shot and killed the deputy during a subsequent traffic stop, then fled with assistance from Ruben Chavez-Reyes, 36.
Roman told Greathouse he would shoot any police officer who tried to stop him, according to a search warrant.
The warrants indicate police seized a gun and three bullets at Roman's home in Delta and a rifle from the Delta home of Roman's father.
Prosecutors have charged Roman with capital murder and Chavez-Reyes with six felonies for allegedly helping Roman elude police. The two were arrested in Beaver after a 37-hour manhunt.
The warrants were released Friday after a court battle between news agencies and the Utah Attorney General's Office. Search warrants are usually public, but the attorney general argued releasing the warrants would endanger witnesses and the defendants' right to a fair trial.
Fourth District Judge Donald Eyre earlier this month ordered the state to unseal seven of nine search warrants served in connection with the case.
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