Three Dona Ana County Detention Center Officers, who just graduated from the center's training academy in February, allegedly spent March 7 drinking and driving around Las Cruces' East Mesa, shooting an assault rifle in the air and firing at stop signs with a handgun, the Las Cruces Sun-News is reporting.

Michael Guerra, 20; Felipe Hernandez, 28; and Heriberto Cardoza, 26, all have been fired by the county, and according to court documents filed Wednesday in Magistrate Court, each has been charged with one count of shooting from a motor vehicle and one count of conspiracy, the Sun-News said.

The court documents said Las Cruces police investigators were tipped off about the incident after Guerra allegedly bragged about the shooting to another jail employee, who reported it to superiors, the paper said.

The officers allegedly told investigators they had been drinking after picking up applications for the Dona Ana County Sheriff's Office, the Sun-News reported.

According to a Las Cruces Police Department news release, the officers got into Guerra's car and were driving around when Guerra produced a handgun, and while both Guerra and Cardoza admitted firing the weapon out of the vehicle, Hernandez denied he did so, the paper said.

Guerra and Cardoza later allegedly fired an AK-47 assault rifle into the air, and police said Hernandez admitted to helping load the weapon but denied firing it, according to the Sun-News. 

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