Los Alamos Police and New Mexico State Police conduct a Sobriety Checkpoint Monday evening near Los Alamos County Airport. The checkpoint was setup prior to the evening commute hours. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com
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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.
April 25 at 7:44 a.m. / A 47-year-old Los Alamos man reported that he was the victim of larceny in the 900 block of Canyon Road. The estimated loss is under $500. The matter is under investigation.
April 25 at 1:48 p.m. / A 22-year-old Tempe man reported that he was the victim of criminal sexual penetration in the 900 block of Capulin Road. The matter is under investigation.
April 25 at 12:20 p.m. / Read More
Los Alamos Police set up a sobriety checkpoint in front of Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church on Canyon Road Friday night. These checkpoints will continue throughout Los Alamos County as part of the LAPD’s campaign to keep drunk drivers off the streets. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com
Los Alamos Police talk with drivers during Friday night’s sobriety checkpoint on Canyon Road. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com
Friday night’s sobriety checkpoint on Canyon Road. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com
Ofc. Robert Girmendonk poses next to boxes and bags of collected prescription drugs. Photo by Sgt. Oliver Morris
LAPD News:
The Los Alamos Police Department conducted its bi-annual DEA prescription drug take back initiative Saturday, April 27.
LAPD conducted two location sites for the first time this year, one at Los Alamos Medical Center and the second at the public library in White Rock.
The total weight of collected drugs was 332 pounds.
“This is the most we have collected thus far and this continues to be a successful program with community support.” Det. Sgt. Oliver Morris Read More
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.
April 18 at 10:45 a.m. / An 18-year-old Los Alamos woman reported that someone burglarized her vehicle parked in the 100 block of Verde Ridge. The estimated loss is unknown.
April 19 at 11 a.m. / A 33-year-old Los Alamos man reported that he was the victim of larceny in the 3000 block of Ridgeway Drive. The estimated loss is less than $2,500.
GAVIN CATA
April 19 at 7:54 p.m. / Police arrested Gavin Cata, Read More
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.
JENNIE GARCIA
April 12 at 2:08 a.m. / Police arrested Jennie Garcia, 34, of Los Alamos near 35th Street and Villa Street and charged her with failure to maintain her lane and DUI.
CHARLES STERBA
April 12 at 10:45 a.m. / Police arrested Charles Sterba, 54, of Los Alamos at the Los Alamos Detention Center on an outstanding warrant from another jurisdiction.
April 12 at 2:01 p.m. Read More
Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev. Courtesy/FBI
Staff report
Police captured the 19-year-old suspected Boston Marathon bomber after a day-long manhunt that shut down the city of Boston and several suburbs and left one police officer dead.
Residents flooded into the streets cheered following the arrest of the Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev to celebrate the end to five days horrendous days since the bombs wounded more than 175 people and killed three.
Tsarnaev’s older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in an overnight police chase and shootout.
Reports indicate that Tsarnaev Read More
Boston is on lockdown as Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, left, died overnight and his brother Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge is thought to be on the run in Watertown, Mass. Courtesy/FBI
Staff report
A search is underway for the second Boston Marathon suspect, following the fatal shooting of a MIT campus police officer Thursday night.
The suspects involved in the Boston Marathon bombing were brothers from the Russian Caucasus who moved to Kazakhstan before coming to the United States several years ago, according to multiple news sources.
The dead brother is Read More
LAPD News:
Throughout the month of April and May, the Los Alamos Police Department will be conducting DWI Checkpoints.
Officers will be targeting impaired drivers on the roadways and at checkpoints in the County of Los Alamos.
Courtesy/DEA
LAPD News:
Det. Sgt. Oliver Morris and his team at the Los Alamos Police will host a “Prescription Drug Take Back Day” 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 27 in the east parking lot of Los Alamos Medical Center, 3917 West Road.
Morris explained that senior citizens in White Rock contacted his office saying they would have difficulty going up to Los Alamos to turn in their unused and out of date pills.
“We were able to get an additional drop off site registered with the DEA and have made arrangements to have officers set up at the White Rock Library parking lot from 10 a.m. Read More