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Los Alamos Police Blotter: Dec. 20 to Dec. 24, 2012

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on December 31, 2012

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.

CONNIE LEMON‑SANDOVAL

Dec. 20 at 12:03 a.m. / Police arrested Connie Lemon-Sandoval, 67, of Los Alamos near 38th Street and Villa and charged her with driving without a working tail light, driving without insurance and driving on a suspended or revoked license.

Dec. 20 at 2:29 p.m. / Police charged a 17-year-old Los Alamos boy in the 1300 block of Diamond Drive with possession of a controlled Read More

‘Katie’s Law’ Bill Clears Senate – Goes to President

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on December 29, 2012

Katie Sepich

U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall applauded last night’s passage of the Katie Sepich Enhanced DNA Collection Act of 2012, a bill named for a New Mexico State University graduate student who was brutally raped and murdered in 2003.

Because New Mexico did not collect DNA from felony arrestees at the time, her killer Gabriel Avila was not identified when he was arrested in 2003 for unrelated crimes.

It wasn’t until three years later, after his conviction for other crimes, that his DNA was taken

DWI Planning Council Meets Jan. 10

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on December 28, 2012

DWI PLANNING COUNCIL News:

The Los Alamos County DWI Planning Council Meeting is set for 8:30 a.m., Jan. 10 in the Los Alamos Police Department Training Room, 2500 Trinity Dr., Ste. A.

The meeting is open to the public.

AGENDA:

Call to Order

II. Approval of minutes from previous meeting: 12/11/2012. (Minutes are available upon request by contacting the Los Alamos Police Department Records Division @ Police-Records@lacnm.us or 663-1741)

III. FY14 Allocation of Distribution Funds (Request/grant for LDWI Distribution Funds is due to the State in February 2013)

IV. Coordinator’s Report

V. Read More

Column: New Gun-Control … Just Another Fool’s Folly!

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on December 28, 2012

By B. Zerker

Weapons Specialist and Constitutionalist

Los Alamos

New Gun-Control … Just Another Fool’s Folly!

For the last few days, I’ve been hearing the endless cries of, “We need more gun-control!” “Ban those evil semi-automatic military assault-weapons! Nobody needs those for hunting!” “Ban all high-capacity magazines,!” etc., all of them now permeating the airwaves in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., tragedy.

I’ve also heard the statement in the past, and I’m paraphrasing, that our Second Amendment’s guarantee that a citizen’s “right to keep and

NNSA Conducting Radiation Survey Over Washington

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on December 27, 2012

Courtesy/NNSA

NNSA News:

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will be flying a helicopter over portions of Washington, D.C., between Dec. 27, 2012, and Jan. 11, 2013.

The purpose of these flights is to measure naturally occurring radiation in the Washington, D.C., area.

The radiation assessment will cover approximately 70 square miles and NNSA will complete the assessment using a helicopter equipped with remote gamma radiation sensing technology.

The helicopter will fly in a grid pattern over the areas, 150 feet or higher above the ground surface, at a speed of approximately Read More