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FBI: Mescalero Apache Man Facing Eight Years In Prison For Assaulting Federal Officer

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FBI News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE ― Nathan Little, 31, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Ruidoso, pled guilty July 20 in Federal Court in Las Cruces to assaulting a federal officer.
 
The BIA arrested Little April 27, 2018, on a criminal complaint charging him with assaulting a federal officer in November 2017. According to the criminal complaint, Little assaulted a BIA officer Nov. 18, 2017, punching him in the face repeatedly while he was being booked into custody at the Lincoln County Detention Center in Lincoln County, following a traffic stop that revealed
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Judge Denies Greg White Petition To Recall Councilors

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Los Alamos County Sheriff candidate Greg White is denied his petition to recall three councilors. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com

 
By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post

First Judicial District Judge David K. Thomson has denied petitions for the recall of Los Alamos County Councilors Antonio Maggiore, Susan O’Leary and Rick Reiss filed by Greg White, candidate for Los Alamos County Sheriff.

Judge Thomson’s orders state that White failed to meet the burden of proof to proceed with the recall petitions during the April 30 evidentiary hearing held Read More

Judge Rules NM Violated Students Constitutional Right To Sufficient Educational Opportunities

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COURT News:

SANTA FE – A state court ruled today that New Mexico’s education system violates the state constitution because it fails to provide students a sufficient public education.  

Families and school districts in the consolidated lawsuit Yazzie v. State of New Mexico and Martinez v. State of New Mexico sued the state for failing to provide public school students with a sufficient education as mandated by the state’s constitution.

The lawsuit challenged the state’s arbitrary and inadequate funding of public schools as well as its failure to provide students with the programs Read More

AG Balderas Sends Dangerous Offender Back To Jail

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James Richard Coca. Courtesy photo
 
AG News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE ― Attorney General Hector Balderas has put a dangerous convicted sex offender back behind bars.
 
James Richard Coca was on supervised probation for possession of child pornography, and was arrested in May for a DWI offense, violating the conditions of his probation. The Court unsatisfactorily discharged him from probation, sentencing him to 270 days in the Department of Corrections, followed by a one-year period of parole.
 
“With today’s sentencing, we have taken yet another dangerous criminal off of the
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FBI: Johnny C. Black Detained On Federal Charge

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Johnny C. Black
 
FBI News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE ― A U.S. Magistrate Judge sitting in Albuquerque, found probable cause to support a criminal complaint charging Johnny C. Black with committing an assault with a dangerous weapon by allegedly firing shots at a New Mexico State Police officer on Santa Clara Pueblo land.
 
Black, 32, an enrolled member of the Noorvik Native Community Tribe in Alaska who resides in Santa Fe, was ordered detained pending trial, which has yet to be scheduled, based on judicial findings that he poses a risk of flight and a danger to the community.
 
The FBI
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Stephen Geisik Ordered To 60-Day Diagnostic Evaluation At State Prison Prior To Sentencing

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Stephen Geisik arrives Wednesday afternoon for a probation violation hearing before Judge Jason Lidyard in District Court. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com

 

By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post

First Judicial District Judge Jason Lidyard has order former Los Alamos resident Stephen Geisik, 27, to have a 60-day evaluation in a Department of Corrections facility in Los Lunas before sentencing him.

Geisik was convicted of a probation violation stemming from charges of child abuse filed against him in February by New Mexico State Police. Read More

FBI: Santa Fe Man Faces Life In Prison For Kidnapping Charge And Carjacking At Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo

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FBI News:

  • Non-Indian Defendant Acknowledges Kidnapping and Carjacking Two Women at Pueblo’s Casino and Resort and Robbing Them

ALBUQUERQUE – Luis Molina, 33, of Santa Fe, pled guilty Thursday in federal court in Albuquerque to a kidnapping charge. In entering the guilty plea, Molina acknowledged kidnapping and carjacking two women at the Ohkay Owingeh Casino and Resort in Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo in December 2015 and robbing them.

Molina was indicted in December 2016 and charged with two counts of kidnapping and one count of carjacking. The indictment alleged that Molina committed Read More

White Asks Judge Shaffer To Voluntarily Recuse Himself

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By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post

Los Alamos resident Greg White has asked First Judicial District Judge Greg Shaffer to voluntarily recuse himself from an ongoing case he filed Jan. 12 against the Los Alamos County Council, County Manager Harry Burgess, County Attorney Alvin Leaphart, Assistant County Attorney Katie Thwaits and Police Chief Dino Sgambellone.

In the suit, White asks the Court to order the Council to “stop inserting words into the County Charter and to follow the Charter as written”. He asks that the defendants be enjoined from violating his rights Read More

White Accuses Supreme Court Of Not Doing Its Duty

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Los Alamos sheriff candidate Greg White

By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post

Los Alamos resident Greg White, a candidate for Los Alamos County Sheriff, filed a brief in the Supreme Court this week asking why the Court “refused to do its constitutionally-mandated, authorized, ministerial and non-discretionary duty to order Gov. Susana Martinez to do hers”.

The brief was filed July 17 in a case in which White attempted to have the Court mandate that Martinez appoint a Los Alamos County councilor to take the place of former Councilor James Chrobocinski who resigned June Read More

Bryce Delano Bound Over To District Court

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By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post

Bryce Delano, 30, of Los Alamos was bound over to First Judicial District Court Tuesday by Los Alamos Magistrate Court Judge Pat Casados on charges of criminal sexual penetration in the second degree and false imprisonment.

The charges are in connection with a March 10 incident at the Holiday Inn Express at 60 Entrada Dr., where Delano was formerly employed as a front desk clerk and involved allegedly in non-consensual sex with a colleague in a hotel room. Although the alleged victim attended the first part of the preliminary hearing Read More