Los Alamos Police Blotter: April 12–April 17, 2013
The following information is provided by the Los Alamos Police Department.
Neither arrests nor charges indicate a conviction, and neither means that a person is guilty of the charges filed against them.
JENNIE GARCIA
April 12 at 2:08 a.m. / Police arrested Jennie Garcia, 34, of Los Alamos near 35th Street and Villa Street and charged her with failure to maintain her lane and DUI.
CHARLES STERBA
April 12 at 10:45 a.m. / Police arrested Charles Sterba, 54, of Los Alamos at the Los Alamos Detention Center on an outstanding warrant from another jurisdiction.
April 12 at 2:01 p.m. Read More
U.S. Senate Through Filibuster Defeats Background Checks
Hundreds of people from Los Alamos and throughout Northern New Mexico gathered on the plaza in Santa Fe last week to support background checks to purchase a gun. On Thursday, the U.S. Senate through filibuster defeated the measure. Courtesy photo Read More
Police Capture Surviving Suspect in Boston Marathon Bombings
Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev. Courtesy/FBI
Staff report
Police captured the 19-year-old suspected Boston Marathon bomber after a day-long manhunt that shut down the city of Boston and several suburbs and left one police officer dead.
Residents flooded into the streets cheered following the arrest of the Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev to celebrate the end to five days horrendous days since the bombs wounded more than 175 people and killed three.
Tsarnaev’s older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in an overnight police chase and shootout.
Reports indicate that Tsarnaev Read More
Heinrich Seeks DOE Assurance for LANL Cleanup Funds
U.S. SENATE News:
The U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing yesterday to consider the president’s proposed budget for the Department of Energy for fiscal year 2014.
During that hearing, U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., sought assurance from DOE’s Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer Daniel Poneman that waste cleanup efforts at Los Alamos National Laboratory would receive sufficient funding this year.
This is part of Heinrich’s ongoing effort to ensure all priority cleanup efforts at LANL stay on schedule.
On April 3, Senators Heinrich and Read More
One Boston Marathon Suspect Dead, Brother on the Run
Boston is on lockdown as Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, left, died overnight and his brother Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge is thought to be on the run in Watertown, Mass. Courtesy/FBI
Staff report
A search is underway for the second Boston Marathon suspect, following the fatal shooting of a MIT campus police officer Thursday night.
The suspects involved in the Boston Marathon bombing were brothers from the Russian Caucasus who moved to Kazakhstan before coming to the United States several years ago, according to multiple news sources.
The dead brother is Read More
