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Alert: Police Seek Public’s Assistance In Case Involving Fuel Tank Tampering On Several Vehicles In White Rock

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LAPD News:

The Los Alamos Police Department Investigations Section is investigating several reports of vehicles having their fuel tanks tampered with.

LAPD is requesting the public’s assistance with any information related to suspicious persons in the White Rock area who have been seen underneath parked vehicles.

LAPD is offering a reward up to $150 to anyone who has information, which leads to the arrest of the suspect(s).

Anyone with information can call Los Alamos Crime Stoppers at 505.662.8282. Reporting individuals can remain anonymous. Read More

LAFD Emergency Medical Calls On The Rise

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LAFD EMS Division Chief Benjamin Stone stands next to a machine that dispenses medication to LAFD personnel to replenish those administered during their shift. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com

 

By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post

The Los Alamos Fire Department has responded to 1,046 calls for emergency medical services (EMS) so far this year, up 144 from the same period last year.

EMS Division Chief Benjamin Stone said he has carefully documented each one of those calls and is proud of LAFD’s response to them. In 2015, the Department responded Read More

Los Alamos Police Blotter: Aug. 20-22, 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.

DAVID C. BOURASSA

Aug. 20 at 12:54 a.m. / Police arrested David C. Bourassa, 38, of Santa Fe on a Municipal Court order of commitment.

 

 

 

TREVON M. YATES

Aug. 20 at 1:22 a.m. / Police arrested Trevon Yates, 22, of Santa Fe on a Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office order of remand.

 

 

 

AVERY COPE

Aug. 20 at 8:24 p.m. / Police arrested Avery Cope, 31, of Los Alamos on East Road Read More

FBI: Navajo Man Pleads Guilty To Federal Voluntary Manslaughter Charge

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FBI News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE ― Larry June, 58, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, pled guilty Aug. 21 in federal court in Albuquerque, to a voluntary manslaughter charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, June will be sentenced to 97 months in prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
 
The FBI and Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety arrested June in Nov. 2016, on a criminal complaint charging him with killing a Navajo woman by stabbing her with a knife Nov. 25, 2016, on the Navajo Indian Reservation in San
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LAFD Holds Resuscitation Academies Sept. 29-30

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LAFD News: 

 

The Los Alamos Fire Department and The Maryland Resuscitation Academy (RA) will present two consecutive one-day resuscitation academies 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Sept. 29-30 at the University of New Mexico-Los Alamos.

The Maryland RA is a one-day, intensive course dedicated to improving survival rates of patients suffering pre-hospital cardiac arrest and is suitable for emergency medical services (EMS) supervisors, medical directors, fire/EMS chiefs, EMS personnel of all levels and hospital and emergency department staffs across New Mexico Read More

Plea Agreement Reached In Stahl Case

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MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post

Under the terms of a plea agreement signed Aug. 21 in First Judicial Court in Santa Fe, Aleah Stahl agreed to plead guilty to possession of a controlled substance.

She will serve one year of supervised probation with inpatient treatment as approved by Adult Parole and Probation. A second charge of shoplifting was dismissed under the agreement.

Assistant District Attorney Kent Wahlquist asked the Court to keep Stahl in custody until she could go almost immediately into treatment saying that she has shown she is a danger to herself and Read More

Former Manager Of Mescalero Apache Tribe Owned Childcare Center Pleads Guilty To Theft Charge

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FBI News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE ― The former manager of Team Members Childcare Center (TMCC), a childcare center owned by the Mescalero Apache Tribe and operated at the Inn of the Mountain Gods (IMG) on behalf of its employees that require childcare pled guilty Aug. 14 in Federal Court in Las Cruces, to a theft of government money charge.
 
Gina McPherson, 49, of Capitan, was arrested May 1, 2017, and was charged by criminal complaint with theft of public money. According to the criminal complaint, McPherson committed the crime from Sept. 2011 through Jan. 2016, on the Mescalero
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DPU Notes Increase In Gas Leak Reports

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By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post

A spike in suspected gas leaks reported to the Los Alamos Department of Public Utilities and Los Alamos Fire Department last week was mostly related to leaking appliances, according to the County’s Deputy Utilities Manager Jack Richardson.

There was a total of six calls Aug. 17 alone but Richardson said his supervisors were not really surprised.

“As we head into fall weather, people are relighting furnaces and using more gas, so we get more calls than we typically do. About half the calls are for leaking appliances such as hot water Read More

FBI: Leader Of Sunland Park Heroin Trafficking Ring Sentenced To Six Years

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FBI News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE ― Raymundo Munoz, 69, of Sunland Park, was sentenced Aug. 15 in Federal Court in Las Cruces, to 72 months in prison for his conviction on heroin trafficking charges. Munoz will be on supervised release for four years after completing his prison sentence.
 
Munoz was the ringleader of a heroin trafficking organization operating out of Sunland Park, that obtained its heroin from Juan Francisco Rivera, 60, of El Paso, Tex., that was the target of a DEA-led investigation. The investigation was designated as part of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement
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