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Police Officer Joshua Yazzie
United States Department of the Interior
Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Government

End of Watch:
Monday, June 7, 2010
Age:
33
Years on the job:
NA
Badge Number:
9BRAVO9
Cause of death:
Automobile accident
 
Police Officer Joshua Yazzie was killed after his car went over a 200-foot embankment.

Bureau of Indian Affairs Officer Joshua Yazzie, 33, was driving near the Bottle Hollow
Reservoir on the Ute Indian Reservation in Uintah County about 6:15 p.m. to help ambulance workers who were working with an intoxicated person who was behaving violently, troopers wrote in a press statement.

About a mile south of U.S. Highway 40 and four miles east of Roosevelt, Yazzie lost control of his patrol car and overcorrected, causing the vehicle to roll off an embankment.

Yazzie was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected from the car, troopers wrote. He died at the scene.

Officer Yazzie is survived by his wife and two children.
 

 

 
Agency Information
United States Department of the Interior - Bureau of Indian Affairs - Division of Law Enforcement
1849 C Street, NW
MS-4551-MIB
Washington, DC 20240
Phone: (202) 208-3710
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Walk tall, walk tall and protect us from above with honor and dignity. May you lead the charge for
citizens right in heaven as you did here on earth


Darrell Thompson
Privet Security Officer St. Clair Co. MI,
Community College Campus Patrol #14
darrell@policespecial.com
www.sc4.edu



Rest in peace, and
may God allow him to keep watch over us on earth while he patrols his beat
in heaven.
Our prayers go out to the Officer and his Department and family. May they all find peace in their hearts soon.

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