A former sheriff’s deputy convicted of his girlfriend’s murder in Denton pleaded guilty Thursday to tampering with evidence from the murder investigation.
Jay Allen Rotter, a 42-year-old former narcotics detective with the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office, went to trial in 2023 on one count of murder.
A jury found him guilty as charged in the shooting death of his girlfriend, Leslie Hartman, a 46-year-old glass artist; in her Denton home on Aug. 26, 2020…