BRING BACK ARE STATE POLICE OFFICERS … AND REINSTALL THE NATIONAL GUARD AT THE BORDER. THOSE ARE THE DEMANDS OF OTERO COUNTY SHERIFF DAVID BLACK AFTER THE STATE COPS WERE SENT TO ALBUQUERQUE TO HELP FIGHT CRIME IN NEW MEXICO’S BIGGEST CITY. SHERIFF BLACK SAYS REMOVING THE POLICE OFFICERS AND GETTING RID OF THE NATIONAL…… MORE
Mother, Son Face Decades of Prison Time
A MOTHER AND SON HAVE EACH PLEADED GUILTY ON TUESDAY TO SECOND DEGREE MURDER AND CONSPIRACY IN THE DEATH OF A FAMILY MEMBER. THE BERNALILLO COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE SAYS ALISSA BICKETT AND DRAKE BICKETT BEAT AND STABBED 65 YEAR OLD MARILYN GANDERT TO DEATH IN JANUARY OF 2018. THE VICTIM’S BURNED BODY WAS LATER…… MORE
Officer-Involved Shooting … Outside of Albuquerque
STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING MONDAY INVOLVING SANTA FE COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES. ACCORDING TO THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN, MELISCO GALLEGOS, A SUSPECT IN A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INCIDENT, ALLEGEDLY RAMMED THREE PATROL VEHICLES WITH HIS PICKUP WHILE THE DEPUTIES WERE INSIDE THE CARS. ONE OF THE DEPUTIES THEN FIRED FROM INSIDE HIS VEHICLE, HITTING…… MORE
Officer-Involved Shooting Outside of Albuquerque
STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING MONDAY INVOLVING SANTA FE COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES. ACCORDING TO THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN, MELISCO GALLEGOS, A SUSPECT IN A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INCIDENT, ALLEGEDLY RAMMED THREE PATROL VEHICLES WITH HIS PICKUP WHILE THE DEPUTIES WERE INSIDE THE CARS. ONE OF THE DEPUTIES THEN FIRED FROM INSIDE HIS VEHICLE, HITTING…… MORE
Protection for Chaco Canyon
SENATOR MARTIN HEINRICH IS PLEASED WITH THE RESULTS OF HIS VISIT TUESDAY WITH U-S INTERIOR SECRETARY DAVID BERNHARDT. HEINRICH SAYS HE SECURED COMMITMENTS TO PLACE ON HOLD ANY LEASING OF LAND WITHIN THE 10-MILE PERIMETER SURROUNDING THE CHACO CULTURE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK, AN AREA WITH DEEP MEANING TO NEW MEXICO’S PUEBLOS. HEINRICH SAYS THE HOLD…… MORE
Gov Agrees to Not Enforce Settlement with DPS
A SETTLEMENT AGAINST STATE POLICE AND FORMER-STATE POLICE CHIEF PETE KASSETAS WILL NOT BE ENFORCED AFTER ALL. NOT ENFORCING IT WAS AGREED TO BY GOVERNOR LUJAN GRISHAM, THOUGH THE CASE REQUIRED CONFIDENTIALITY UNTIL THE YEAR 2023. NOW, ALL SIDES CAN DISCUSS THE LITIGATION … BUT THE ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL REPORTS HOW MUCH IS PAID TO DPS…… MORE
Another Busy Day at the Border
A VERY BUSY DAY MONDAY FOR BORDER PATROL AGENTS IN THE EL PASO SECTOR. THE BORDER PATROL SAYS OVER 22-HUNDRED PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED FOR ENTERING THE COUNTRY ILLEGALLY. THE ARRESTS BEGAN JUST AFTER 2AM WHEN 200 ILLEGAL ALIENS WERE APPREHENDED NEAR THE ANTELOPE WELLS PORT OF ENTRY IN NEW MEXICO. CENTRAL AMERICAN FAMILIES AND UNACCOMPANIED…… MORE
Nob Hill Resident Attacked
A MAN IS ATTACKED WITH A BRICK WHILE PUTTING UP A YARD SALE SIGN IN ALBUQUERQUE’S NOB HILL. IT HAPPENED TO JOSEPH TORRES, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE CALLED 911 TO REPORT THE INCIDENT, BUT NO POLICE WERE SENT TO THE SCENE. TORRES SAYS HE HEARD SOMEONE ONE RUNNING BEHIND HIM, THEN WAS HIT WITH…… MORE
Lab Worker Pleads Not Guilty
A NOT GUILTY PLEA ON TUESDAY IN FEDERAL COURT FROM FORMER LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY SCIENTIST TURAB LOOKMAN. THE 67 YEAR OLD IS ACCUSED OF LYING ABOUT CONTACTS HE ALLEGEDLY HAD WITH THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT. A JUDGE RULED THAT LOOKMAN CAN BE RELEASED ON A 50-THOUSAND DOLLAR BOND…BUT HIS TRAVEL WILL BE RESTRICTED TO THE…… MORE
Duke City Zoo Welcomes Wolf Pups
THE EFFORT TO REINTRODUCE WOLVES TO THE SOUTHWEST, INCLUDING PART OF NEW MEXICO, TAKES A STEP FORWARD AT THE ALBUQUERQUE BIO-PARK. TWO PUPS WERE BORN THERE IN EARLY MAY. THE TWO, A MALE AND A FEMALE, WERE THE FIRST NEW WOLF ARRIVALS IN NEARLY 15 YEARS. THE AS-YET UN-NAMED PUPS WERE BORN TO “KAWI” AND…… MORE
