Recently Terminated Garfield County Sheriff’s Deputy Receives Deferred Sentence for Domestic Violence Case

Former Detentions Deputy Talon Peck pleaded guilty to domestic violence-related harassment and received a deferred sentence of 18 months on Monday in a plea deal, having two counts of child abuse and one count of criminal tampering dismissed.

A deferred sentence delays conviction of a case, allowing it to be dismissed without judgment and without a mark on their criminal record after the set time by the court, assuming the defendant follows specific set guidelines.

According to Peck’s arrest affidavit from May 26, Peck’s wife called the police that evening telling responding Garfield County Sheriff’s Deputy Devan Salazar that Peck came home suddenly and tried to take her phone from her. She told Salazar that Peck was “very angry” and accused her of cheating.

She continues that Peck threw the phone in the direction of her child, almost hitting them, and when she went to pick up the phone Talon tried to take it again, ended up on top of her and managed to “rip” the phone out of her hand. She states that Peck then left in his truck, and she went to a neighbor’s house with her two children who had witnessed the ordeal.

According to the affidavit, Salazar questioned the wife on who she was speaking with on the phone when Peck came home, and she said her child’s barber whom she is friends with. Salazar then told her that a “reasonable husband would probably not be too happy if this was occurring and vice versa.”

The deputy states he drove to their home and found Peck along with three other people in the front yard with what he later found out to be dozens of trash bags with the wife’s belongings in them. He then states he recognized Peck on sight and Peck again accused the wife of cheating. Peck explained he bought the house, and so had the three other people help him remove the wife’s belongings and changed all the locks.

The deputy arrested Peck for domestic violence-related harassment and child abuse, according to the affidavit. The wife later told Salazar that she found her phone in the trash bags undamaged, but the password was changed and all messaged to the friend were deleted. Additionally, she states that her Tesla app and access keys were deleted, preventing her from using the car. The deputy states that he believed this was done by Peck in retaliation, and this contributed to the criminal tampering charge.

Peck was terminated for cause only a few weeks earlier on May 5. According to a Garfield County Sheriff’s Office internal affairs summary acquired by Blue Surveillance, Peck admitted to lying to a supervisor for the reason he was absent from work. He also had “secondary employment without approval.”