AN ALBUQUERQUE POLICE OFFICER IS FIRED FOR THE WAY HE HANDLED THE OMAREE VARELA CASE. GIL VIGIL WAS ONE OF TWO OFFICERS WHO RESPONDED TO A 911 CALL LAST JUNE AT THE HOME WHERE THE NINE-YEAR OLD BOY LIVED. SIX MONTHS LATER, OMAREE WAS KILLED… ALLEGEDLY KICKED TO DEATH BY HIS MOTHER. SYNTHIA VARELA CASAUS REMAINS IN JAIL ON A 100-THOUSAND DOLLAR BOND.
APD SAYS VIGIL AND THE OTHER OFFICER NEVER LISTENED TO THE 911 CALL, DESPITE A DISPATCHER RECOMMENDING THEM TO HEAR IT. THE DISPATCHER SAID IF THEY HAD LISTENED TO THE CALL, THEY WOULD HAVE OVERHEAD THREATENING, PROFANE AND ABUSIVE COMMENTS BEING DIRECTED TOWARD THE BOY. THE OFFICERS ALSO DID NOT FILE A REPORT.
