Courts

Former Santa Fe Store Manager Pleads Guilty To Embezzlement And Tax Fraud

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State Tax & Rev News:
 
SANTA FE ― A former manager of Armstrong McCall in Santa Fe has plead guilty for embezzling more than $50,000 from his former employer and willfully committing tax fraud from 2013-2015.
 
The plea follows an investigation by the Tax Fraud Investigations Division of the New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department.
 
Craig D. Latimore, 44, was sentenced to serve four and a half years of supervised probation. The three counts of tax fraud will run concurrently with each other and consecutively with the count of embezzlement. Latimore agreed to pay
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Judge Revokes Probation For Adrian Trujillo

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Adrian Trujillo listens as his attorney Brad Kirwan questions Los Alamos Police Cpl. Eric Wilhoit Thursday in First Judicial District Court in Santa Fe. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com

 

By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post

Adrian Trujillo, 30, of Hernandez will remain in incarceration until July 16 and receive an unsatisfactory discharge from probation as a result of a ruling handed down by First Judicial District Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer Thursday during a probation violation hearing.

Trujillo was originally charged in 2015 with false imprisonment, Read More

Navajo Man From Churchrock Sentenced To Prison For Federal Voluntary Manslaughter Conviction

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FBI News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE ― Randy Payton, 35, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Churchrock, was sentenced March 8 in Federal Court in Albuquerque, to 137 months in prison for his voluntary manslaughter conviction. 
 
Payton will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
 
Payton was arrested Oct. 19, 2016, on a criminal complaint charging him with killing a Navajo man on the Navajo Indian Reservation in McKinley County, Oct. 14, 2016. According to the criminal complaint,
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Greg White Files Petition To Recall Council Chair

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Greg White

 
By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post

Los Alamos resident Greg White has filed a petition for the recall of Los Alamos County Council Chair David Izraelevitz.

White’s petition, filed in First Judicial District Court in Santa Fe contains 31 counts alleging wrongdoing by Izraelevitz who is seeking reelection this year.

White, who announced his intention to run for Los Alamos County Sheriff in this year’s election as an Independent candidate, has reportedly spent the last several months researching the Los Alamos County Council, the Los Alamos Read More

Balderas Urges New Mexicans To Use Toys R Us & Babies R Us Gift Cards & Credits

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AG News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE ― Attorney General Hector Balderas has issued a Consumer Alert regarding the announcement that Toys R Us and Babies R Us stores are going out of business.
 
Both stores have locations in New Mexico, but are liquidating their inventory to shut their doors for good as the parent company goes out of business. Attorney General Balderas is urging New Mexicans to use their gift cards and store credits before April 15, 2018, the last day they will be valid according to the bankruptcy plan.
 
“I am urging New Mexicans to use their gift cards and store credits
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Hotel Employee Charged With Attack On Colleague

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Bryce Delano

 
By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post
maire@ladailypost.com
 

A 30-year-old Los Alamos man has been arrested and charged with criminal sexual penetration and false imprisonment in connection with a March 10 incident at the Holiday Inn Express in Los Alamos.

Bryce Delano, a front desk clerk at the hotel, is accused of pushing his way into a room that was being cleaned by a colleague and allegedly forcing her to have sex with him.

An affidavit for an arrest warrant was filed MArch 20 in Los Alamos Magistrate Court by Los Alamos Police Det. Joey Robinson and a warrant Read More

Los Alamos Police Blotter: March 16 To March 18, 2018

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LAPD News:

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 against them.

CAMERON PAUL OTERO: March 16 at 8:45 p.m. / Police arrested Cameron Paul Otero, 27, of Farmington at 83 Chiquita on an outstanding Magistrate Court warrant.

 

 

 

GREGORY CAYTON: March 17 at 6:14 p.m. / Police arrested Gregory Clayton, 37, of Los Alamos on Beryl and charged him with aggravated battery.

 

 

 

TYLER JAMES SPARKS: March 17 at 11:04 p.m. / Police

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Convicted Spy Pedro Mascheroni Released From Prison

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Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni during an interview on the deck of his Barranca Mesa home in October 2010 just prior to his arrest by the FBI. Photo by Carol A. Clark

 

By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post

A scientist formerly employed at Los Alamos National Laboratory was released from federal prison March 16 after serving a sentence for communicating classified nuclear weapons data to a person he believed was an official of the Venezuelan government.

Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni, 82, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Argentina, was sentenced in 2013 in U.S. District Court Read More

FBI: Federal Grand Jury Charges Espanola Man With Federal Child Sexual Abuse Offenses

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FBI News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE ― A federal grand jury has filed an indictment charging Kevin Vigil, 52, a non-Indian man from Espanola, with child sexual abuse offenses, announced U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson, Special Agent in Charge Terry Wade of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division, and Special Agent in Charge William McClure of District IV of the BIA’s Office of Justice Services.
 
The indictment charges Vigil with two counts of aggravated child sexual abuse. The indictment alleges that Vigil sexually abused an Indian child under the age of twelve years Feb. 4, 2018,
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Attorney Kate Ferlic Files Response In Brenner Case

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By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post

Los Alamos County Councilor Susan O’Leary’s personal attorney Kate Ferlic has responded to briefs filed by two other attorneys in a suit filed by Patrick Brenner in First Judicial District Court against the County Council and the County Custodian of Records.

The case, which has dragged on since June, involves a request by Brenner under the state Inspection of Public Records Act for all emails sent and received May 15 by Los Alamos County Councilors. Brenner maintains not all O’Leary’s emails from her personal email account from Read More