On Monday, March 9, 2026, investigators from New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez’s office began searching Zorro Ranch, Jeffrey Epstein’s former property in Stanley, about 30 miles south of Santa Fe. The attorney general’s office said the search was carried out with the cooperation of the ranch’s current owners.

It came less than three weeks after Torrez reopened the state’s criminal investigation, citing what prosecutors called revelations in previously sealed FBI files. The ranch, with its 26,700-square-foot hilltop mansion and private runway, has long been described by Epstein’s accusers as a place where young women were abused and trafficked. Emails released earlier in the year suggested federal investigators had never searched it.

New Mexico’s original case was closed in 2019 at the request of federal prosecutors in New York, after the state had interviewed possible victims who visited the ranch. Epstein died in a Manhattan jail that year while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. He was never charged in New Mexico.

Epstein’s estate sold the ranch in 2023 to the family of Don Huffines, a Texas Republican who had won his primary for state comptroller the week before the search. The family has renamed it San Rafael Ranch and plans a Christian retreat there.

The attorney general’s office hasn’t said what investigators were looking for or what they found. A legislative truth commission is running its own inquiry in parallel.