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AG Balderas Announces Pretrial Detention Of Serial Organized Retail Criminal Lovelea Degeer Who Enlisted Help Of Her 15-Year-Old Daughter

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Attorney General Hector Balderas

From the Office of the Attorney General:

ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas has announced that at a pretrial detention hearing Monday afternoon, Judge Cindy Leos granted the State’s pretrial detention motion on Lovelea Degeer.

Judge Leos determined Degeer will be held pending trial and found that Degeer showed “terrible judgment” through her pattern of conduct, which includes Degeer’s current criminal charges and the allegation that she stored a gun under the bed of her 12-year-old son. Judge Leos concluded that no release conditions Read More

FBI: Shane Watkins Of La Mesa Charged For Threatening To Burn Public Water Utility Building

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FBI News:

ALBUQUERQUE — Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Raul Bujanda, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Albuquerque Field Office, announced that Shane Watkins was charged by criminal complaint with making interstate threats.

Watkins, 36, of La Mesa, N.M. made an initial appearance in court Oct. 26 and will remain in custody pending a preliminary and detention hearing scheduled for Oct. 31.

According to the complaint, Watkins allegedly made telephone calls Sept. 16, 2021, and June 29, 2022, to the Lower Rio Grande Public Water Works Authority Read More

Los Alamos Police Blotter: Oct. 6-24, 2022

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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 filed against them.

 

ROY MOORE 

Oct. 6 at 7:42 a.m. / Police arrested Roy Moore, 74, of Los Alamos on Pueblo Drive on an outstanding Magistrate Court warrant. 

 

 

 

 

SALVADOR EDUARDO SALAIZ

Oct. 11 at 3:28 / Police arrested Salvador Eduardo Salaiz, 29, of Nambe at 2500 Trinity Dr. on an outstanding Municipal Court warrant. 

 

 

 

 

 

JESSE JAMES KLEBESADEL  Read More

Post Q&A With Magistrate Judge Candidate Catherine Taylor

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Democrat Catherine Taylor is running for Magistrate Judge and stopped by the Los Alamos Daily Post recently to answer questions about the local election. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Staff Report

Democrat Catherine Taylor is running for Magistrate Judge. She recently stopped by the Los Alamos Daily Post to answer questions about the local election. This is part of a series of Q&As with political candidates that the Post will publish ahead of the Nov. 8 General Election.

POST: How long have you lived in Los Alamos? 

TAYLOR: Just over six years, since August 2016. 

POST: Where do

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Post Q&A With Magistrate Judge Candidate Tim Bullock

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Republican Tim Bullock is running for Magistrate Judge and stopped by the Los Alamos Daily Post recently to answer questions about the local election. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Staff Report

Republican Tim Bullock is running for Los Alamos County Magistrate Court Judge. He stopped by the Los Alamos Daily Post recently to answer questions about the local election.

This is part of a series of Q&As with political candidates that the Post will publish ahead of the Nov. 8 General Election.

POST: How long have you lived in Los Alamos?

BULLOCK: 4 years 11 months,

POST: Where do you Read More

When You Vote This Year, Vote All The Way Through Ballot

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JPEC News:

On this year’s ballot you will see two statewide judicial retention races. Senior Justice Michael E. Vigil is standing for retention to serve another term on the New Mexico Supreme Court and Judge Jane B. Yohalem is standing for retention on the New Mexico Court of Appeals.

Under New Mexico law, they must receive 57 percent voter approval to continue in their current positions.

You may never have heard of either of these individuals or come in contact with them, so how do you decide whether they should stay on the bench? The New Mexico Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission Read More

New Mexico Supreme Court Clarifies Good Time Eligibility For Juveniles Convicted Of First-Degree Murder

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Justice Briana H. Zamora

AOC News:

SANTA FE — A juvenile sentenced to less than life imprisonment for first-degree murder can earn good time credit only if the sentencing court explicitly authorizes it, the state Supreme Court ruled today.

In a unanimous opinion, the Court reversed a district court’s determination in a habeas corpus proceeding that Norman Cates was eligible to earn up to four days of good time against his sentence for every month he served in prison. The Earned Meritorious Deduction Act (EMDA) permits up to 30 days of good time credit for prisoners confined for nonviolent offenses Read More

Balderas Announces Indictment Of Child Predator Who Managed Library Of Pornographic Images

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Attorney General Hector Balderas

AG News:

ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas announced Thursday the indictment of Jimmy Pardo-Thul for Manufacturing Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM).

In January 2022, AG Balderas indicted Jimmy Pardo-Thul for Possession of CSAM. After a forensic review of his devices, it was learned that Pardo-Thul was managing a library of thousands of images depicting the sexual abuse of children, and law enforcement was able to identify that he also was creating additional copies of these images.

“This is a horrific case of child victimization, Read More

FBI: Previously Convicted Felon Derick Pacheco Gets 11 Years In Prison For Shooting Federal Agent

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FBI News:

ALBUQUERQUE — Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that Oct. 18 Derick Martin Garcia Pacheco was sentenced to 11 years and 3 months in prison.

Garcia Pacheco, 33, of Albuquerque, pleaded guilty May 10 to one count of assault on a federal officer using a deadly or dangerous weapon and inflicting bodily injury and one count of being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition.

Dec. 11, 2020, FBI Agents and task force officers arrived at Garcia Pacheco’s residence in Albuquerque to perform a search pursuant to a federal warrant. Agents Read More

AG Balderas Announces Additional Guilty Verdicts In Case Of Española Woman Accused Of Voter Fraud

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From the Office of the Attorney General:

ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas announced today that a Rio Arriba County jury convicted Laura Seeds of two fourth degree felonies and one misdemeanor.

The charges were in relation to her actions in the 2018 Española municipal election of engaging in intimidating conduct during a municipal election, coercing a voter, and disturbing polling places.

Jurors returned their verdict in the same afternoon they began deliberating. Sentencing will be set at a later date.

“Citizens have a right to freely participate in elections without Read More