2026年3月10日 / 美国东部时间上午9:13 / CBS/美联社
周一，州调查人员开始搜查新墨西哥州一处偏僻的牧场。金融家、性犯罪者杰弗里·爱泼斯坦（Jeffrey Epstein）曾在此招待宾客，此前有指控称该房产可能被用于对年轻女性进行性虐待和性交易。
州总检察长劳尔·托雷斯（Raúl Torrez）办公室宣布，此次搜查得到了现任牧场所有者的配合。
新墨西哥州司法部发言人表示，该部门在新墨西哥州警察和桑多瓦尔县治安官办公室的协助下启动了搜查，而这两个机构的辖区均包括该牧场。
托雷斯在2月份重新开启了对该牧场及爱泼斯坦2019年死亡前据称在此发生的活动的调查。州总检察长当时在一份声明中表示，这一决定与最近公开的爱泼斯坦相关文件有关。
新墨西哥州的最初调查于2019年应纽约联邦检察官的要求关闭，州检察官现在称“此前封存的联邦调查局文件中披露的内容值得进一步调查”。
爱泼斯坦于1993年从前民主党州长布鲁斯·金（Bruce King）手中购得位于新墨西哥州圣达菲以南约30英里的斯坦利镇（Stanley）的广阔“佐罗牧场”，并建造了一座带私人跑道的山顶豪宅。
该房产于2023年由爱泼斯坦的遗产出售，所得款项用于偿还债权人，买家是德克萨斯州州审计长候选人唐·哈芬斯（Don Huffines）的家人，他在上周赢得了共和党初选。
该机构在一份声明中表示：“新墨西哥州司法部感谢现任房产所有者的合作。检察官‘将继续及时向公众通报情况、支持受害者，并根据事实调查一切线索。’”
此外，新墨西哥州立法者已成立一个新委员会，调查该牧场过去的活动。
爱泼斯坦2019年在曼哈顿监狱等待性虐待和贩卖数十名未成年女孩指控的审判期间自杀身亡。
爱泼斯坦从未在新墨西哥州面临指控，但州总检察长办公室2019年证实，他们曾采访过到访过爱泼斯坦牧场的可能受害者。
Jeffrey Epstein’s former Zorro Ranch searched after revelations in FBI files, New Mexico prosecutors say
March 10, 2026 / 9:13 AM EDT / CBS/AP
State investigators began searching a secluded ranch in New Mexico on Monday where financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein once entertained guests, following allegations that the property may have been used for sexual abuse and sex trafficking of young women.
The office of state Attorney General Raúl Torrez announced that the search was being done with the cooperation of the current ranch owners.
A spokesperson for the New Mexico Department of Justice said the department initiated the search with help from the New Mexico State Police and Sandoval County Sheriff’s Office, whose jurisdiction includes the ranch.
Torrez reopened an investigation in February into the ranch and activity that allegedly took place there prior to Epstein’s 2019 death. The state attorney general said in an announcement at the time that the decision was tied to the then-recent release of the Epstein files.
New Mexico’s initial case was closed in 2019 at the request of federal prosecutors in New York, and state prosecutors say now that “revelations outlined in the previously sealed FBI files warrant further examination.”
Epstein purchased the sprawling Zorro Ranch in Stanley, New Mexico, about 30 miles south of Santa Fe, in 1993 from former Democratic Gov. Bruce King and built a hilltop mansion with a private runway.
The entrance of the San Rafael Ranch, which was previously owned by Jeffrey Epstein and called the Zorro Ranch, is seen, Jan. 31, 2026, near Stanley, N.M. Savannah Peters / AP
The property was sold by Epstein’s estate in 2023 — with proceeds going toward creditors — to the family of Don Huffines, a candidate in Texas for state comptroller who won the Republican primary last week.
“The New Mexico Department of Justice appreciates the cooperation of the current property owners,” the agency said in a statement. Prosecutors “will continue to keep the public appropriately informed, support the survivors, and follow the facts wherever they lead.”
Additionally, New Mexico state legislators have established a new commission to look into past activities at the ranch.
Epstein killed himself in a Manhattan jail while awaiting trial in 2019 on charges that he sexually abused and trafficked dozens of underage girls.
Epstein never faced charges in New Mexico, but the state attorney general’s office in 2019 confirmed that it had interviewed possible victims who visited Epstein’s ranch.
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