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Council Proclaims October Drug Free Month

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Councilor Chris Chandler presents Police Chief Dino Sgambellone with a proclamation at the County Council meeting Tuesday declaring October Drug Free Month. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

COUNTY News: 

Los Alamos County Council proclaimed October as a Drug Free Month during its regular meeting Tuesday night in Council Chambers. A proclamation was presented to Los Alamos Police Chief Dino Sgambellone. 

Proclamation:

 

WHEREAS: It is the goal of all organizations who deal with the prevention of drug abuse to motivate people to more active participation in programs Read More

State Police Checkpoints And Saturation Patrols Operating Across New Mexico In October

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NMSP News:
 
New Mexico State Police will be conducting sobriety checkpoints; saturation patrols and registration, insurance and driver’s license checkpoints in every county across the state during the month of October.
 
NMSP is bringing awareness to these events in an effort to reduce alcohol related fatalities through continued media attention and intensive advertising. These checkpoints are helping to change society’s attitude about drinking and driving.
 
Hundreds of lives could be saved each year if every driver had the courage to make the
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District Judge Riles At Inconsistency In Plea Deals

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Allan Houle, left, and his attorney Sam Ruyle arrive for a plea hearing Wednesday in the First Judicial Court in Santa Fe. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com

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

Sentencing for Allan Houle of Los Alamos under a plea agreement was continued for 30 days Wednesday in First Judicial District Court. Chief Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer expressed concern with the inconsistencies between Houle’s agreement and that of Anthony Knief who was sentenced Monday afternoon in her courtroom.

After Deputy District Attorney Kent Wahlquist Read More

Los Alamos Police Blotter: Sept. 20 To Sept. 22, 2017

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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.

GERALD ESPINOZA

Sept. 20 at 4 p.m. / Police arrested Gerald Espinoza, 35, of Espanola at 2500 Trinity Dr., at 2500 Trinity Dr., on an outstanding Magistrate Court warrant.

 

 

 

TABATHA ANNJOYCE JONES

Sept. 21 at 1:37 p.m. /Police arrested Tabatha Annjoyce Jones, 34, of White Rock at 2500 Trinity Dr., and charged her with embezzlement of between $2,500 and $20,000.

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Police Seek Public’s Assistance In Los Alamos Youth Football And Cheerleading League Embezzlement Case

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LAPD News:

Based on the continuing investigation of embezzlement from the Los Alamos Youth Football and Cheerleading League, Los Alamos Police Det. Ryan Wolking is seeking information from participants of the league, businesses or individuals who donated to the league, or anyone from whom the league would have received cash, checks, or some other form of payment.

Specifically, LAPD is requesting information relating to financial transactions being processed or handled by the league’s former president Tabatha Jones of White Rock.

All information should be directed to Det. Wolking LA-93 Read More

Labor Board Dismisses Prohibitive Practices Complaint Against LAPD

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Sgt. Monica Salazar-Casias, president of the International Union of Police Associations, Local No. 14 and Vice President Cpl. Ben Irving chat prior to Monday’s prohibited practices complaint hearing. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com

Los Alamos County Labor Management Relations Board members, from left, Eppie Trujillo, Felicia Orth and Trey Frazier discuss a prohibited practices complaint against the Los Alamos Police Department Monday at the Municipal Building. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com

 
By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily
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Knief Pleads Guilty To Two Counts Of Trafficking – 18 Charges Dismissed

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Anthony Knief awaits his plea hearing Monday in First Judicial District Court in Santa Fe with his attorney Kitren Fischer. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com

 

By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post

Anthony Knief, 33, of Taos was sentenced to nine years of incarceration for each of two trafficking charges in First Judicial District Court Monday in Santa Fe. Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer suspended the two sentences, which are to run consecutively and ordered Knief to be on supervised probation for five years. Eighteen other drug-related charges were Read More

Two Vehicle Crash At 15th And Central

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Both drivers are fine but this Nissan car owned by Los Alamos resident Becky Shankland, left, sustained some major damage from a collision with a truck this afternoon in the intersection at 15th Street and Central Avenue. No injuries were reported at the scene and the driver of the truck was cited for running a red light. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

This Nissan truck sustained minor damage this afternoon from a two vehicle crash at 15th Street and Central Avenue. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Police on scene to sort out the situation following this afternoon’s crash at 15th Read More

Los Alamos Magistrate Court News

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Staff Report

 

Ryan A. Roller of Los Alamos was bound over to District Court Friday on three charges following a preliminary hearing before Los Alamos Magistrate Judge Pat Casados.

 

Roller was charged with false imprisonment, battery and battery against a household member as a result of a July 19 incident at an address on 39th Street. During Friday’s hearing, Judge Casados heard testimony from Det. Sgt. James Rodriguez, Det. Ryan Wolking, Cpl. Gabriel Nieto and Roller’s neighbor Blake Moon before determining that there was probable cause that the three crimes had been committed Read More

AG: Grand Jury Indicts Eli Kronenanker

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Eli Kronenanker/Courtesy photo
 
AG News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE ― Attorney General Hector Balderas announced Sept. 21 that Eli Kronenanker was indicted by a grand jury in the 2013 alleged rape and kidnapping of a Rio Rancho teen.
 
The Bernalillo County Grand Jury indicted Kronenanker on four counts of Criminal Sexual Penetration, one count of Kidnapping, one count of Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon, one count of Intimidation of a Witness, and one count of Sexual Exploitation of Children.
 
“I will continue to target individuals who sexually assault, threaten, and abuse
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