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Stephen Geisik Jailed On Probation Violation

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Stephen Geisik

 

By MAIRE O’NEILL

Los Alamos Daily Post

maire@ladailypost.com

 

Former Los Alamos resident Stephen Geisik, 27, is incarcerated at the Los Alamos Detention Center after his arrest by New Mexico State Patrol Ofc. Jacob de Leon on two child abuse charges.

The new charges violate the terms of Geisik’s probation in a 2012 Los Alamos case.

Geisik was charged in March 2012 in Los Alamos Magistrate Court with five counts of criminal sexual penetration of the first degree of a child under 13 years of age and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. In June 2012, Read More

Councilor Susan O’Leary Files Brief In IPRA Case

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Los Alamos County Councilor Susan O’Leary
 
By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post

Los Alamos County Councilor Susan O’Leary’s personal attorney, Kate Ferlic, has filed a brief in First Judicial District Court on her behalf, in a case filed against the Council and the County’s Designated Custodian of Records Barb Ricci by former Los Alamos resident Patrick Brenner, under the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act (IPRA).

The brief is an unopposed motion for in camera review and bench memo on standard of review.

Judge Greg Shaffer gave permission for Read More

Deputy DA Kent Wahlquist Argues Pretrial Detention In Murder Of Edgewood Gas Station Attendant

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First Judicial District Attorney’s Office staff at dangerousness hearings Tuesday in Chief Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer’s courtroom in Santa Fe for defendants accused of planning an armed robbery Feb. 11 at an Edgewood gas station, from left, Kent Wahlquist, Jonn Osborn and Ihsan Ahmed. Wahlquist handles the majority of Los Alamos District Court cases. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com

First Judicial District Deputy District Attorney Kent Wahlquist speaks to Court Bailiff Steve Bing outside Chief Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer’s courtroom Tuesday in Santa Read More

Los Alamos County Sheriff Duties Issue Returns To Court In May; Judge Denies Preliminary Injunction

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Los Alamos County Sheriff Marco Lucero, right, and his attorney Blair Dunn await the start of a hearing Tuesday afternoon before First Judicial District Judge Francis Mathew in Santa Fe. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com

 

Los Alamos County Attorney Alvin Leaphart, right, Assistant County Attorney Katie Thwaits and Assistant County Attorney Kevin Powers Tuesday afternoon in Fifth Judicial District Judge Francis Mathew’s courtroom in Santa Fe. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com

 

Los Alamos County Sheriff Marco Lucero is sworn in before Read More

Los Alamos Police Blotter: Feb. 21 To Feb. 27, 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.

ROBERT J. GARCIA

Feb. 21 at 10 a.m. / Police arrested Robert J. Garcia, 24, of Espanola at 2500 Trinity Dr., on an outstanding warrant from another jurisdiction.

 

 

STEPHEN M. GEISIK

Feb. 22 at 9:22 p.m. / Police arrested Stephen Geisik, 27, of Hernandez on an arrest order.

 

 

 

MATTHEW RUIZ

Feb. 23 at 6:55 p.m. / Police arrested Matthew Ruiz, 21, of Alcalde in Espanola Read More

AG: Four Corners Woman Faces Life In Prison

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Shanah Chadwick-McNally

AG News:

AZTEC ― Attorney General Hector Balderas announced Thursday that the New Mexico Supreme Court agreed with the Office of the Attorney General Criminal Appeals Division and denied the appeal of Shanah Chadwick-McNally in her first-degree murder case for the bludgeoning death and robbery of an Aztec man.

The State charged the defendant with an open count of first-degree murder and alleged two aggravating circumstances:

  • (1) that defendant committed the murder with the intent to kill in the commission of or attempt to commit kidnapping; and
  • (2) that defendant
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Probation Violation Lands Lopez In Jail For A Year

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By MAIRE O’NEILL

Los Alamos Daily Post

maire@ladailypost.com 

Probation was revoked Feb. 8 for Melody Lopez, 31, of San Juan Pueblo by Fifth Judicial District Jennifer Attrep and she was remanded to the Los Alamos County Detention Center until Dec. 15.

Lopez was on probation under a global plea agreement reached in 2015 on a Los Alamos County case and two Rio Arriba County cases. She pleaded guilty to two counts of burglary of a vehicle and one count of unauthorized use or theft of a credit card of another. Under the agreement, several more counts of unauthorized use of a credit card, one count Read More

Tyson Collins Detained Until Status Hearing March 15

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By MAIRE O’NEILL

Los Alamos Daily Post

maire@ladailypost.com

 

Tyson Collins will remain in the Los Alamos Detention Center until March 15 when he is slated to go before Fifth Judicial District Chief Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer for a status hearing on his living arrangements and electronic monitoring issues in his home state of Washington.

 

Collins pleaded guilty Feb. 1 to solicitation and sexual exploitation of children charges in connection with his online contact with a 15-year-old Los Alamos girl after she posted on an app called “Whisper” asking for log-information for Netflix. Read More

Krista Wilhelm Gets 478 Days For Probation Violation

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COURT News:

Krista Wilhelm, 33, of Los Alamos will remain in Los Alamos County Detention Center until June 13, 2019, following her Feb. 20 admission to violating her probation.

 

Los Alamos Magistrate Court Judge Pat Casados granted her supervised probation in December in three prior cases, however new charges were filed against Wilhelm Feb. 1 and again Feb. 12.

 

Los Alamos Police Det. Ryan Wolking filed a criminal complaint Feb. 1 charging Wilhelm with possession of drug paraphernalia consisting of a dirty cotton, which field-tested positive for heroin, two glass methamphetamine Read More