Epstein stands outside his Zorro Ranch barn with an unknown young woman or girl in an undated photo. Dispatch logs show calls from the ranch ranging from a 16-year-old girl getting thrown from a horse to a man being injured by a four-wheeler.
A 911 call from inside Zorro Ranch in 2016 seemed to unsettle Jeffrey Epstein.
Dispatch logs obtained byThe New Mexican,which have not been previously reported, show only a handful of emergency service calls to the southern Santa Fe County ranch in the years when Epstein owned it. They range from a 16-year-old girl getting thrown from a horse to a man being injured by a four-wheeler and three calls in which the caller hung up.
Among those was a hang-up call Feb. 16, 2016, just after Epstein left the property — coming from the ranch's main phone line.
The emergency call was received at 8:43 a.m. that day, according to the dispatch log from the Regional Emergency Communications Center, which is operated jointly by the city and county of Santa Fe. A dispatcher calling back reached Karen Gordon, a longtime ranch manager who advised "everythings fine," the notes state. It was unknown who had placed the 911 call, according to the log.
Gordon received the call from dispatchers around 20 minutes after Epstein left the property, according to an email to Epstein found in U.S. Department of Justice files.
Gordon denied to law enforcement anyone had made the call, according to the email, but officers were "still dispatched," wrote Epstein's staff member, who emailed Epstein from the Zorro Ranch email account and appears to have been Karen Gordon's husband and co-manager Brice Gordon.
"It was probably the same patrol car we spotted just before Lamy," the ranch staffer wrote to Epstein. Karen Gordon "spoke to patrol man at RC and clarified that no call was placed from residence." (RC in other emails refers to ranch central, the cluster of homes closest to the entrance.)
Epsteinforwardedthe email to his pilot, Larry Visoski, writing only: "instinct."
Visoskiresponded"You are correct!" — it's unclear what they were referring to — and chided Brice Gordon for not telling Epstein about the law enforcement visit sooner.
Epstein twiceaskedthe ranch managers to tell him whether the officer was dispatched from the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office or New Mexico State Police but didn't get an answer by email.
"Did karen get the policmands card. county or state police/?"Epstein askedin his typo-strewn fashion.
