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Los Alamos Police Douse Local Firefighters!

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With a final score of 13-11, Los Alamos Police officers reined victorious today over Los Alamos Firefighters in a baseball game played at Overlook Park. The game was a continuation of a Fourth of July matchup that ended abruptly when a fire broke out at the New Beginnings Church on East Road. Fire Chief Troy Hughes, far left, and Police Chief Wayne Torpy, third from left, congratulate the players for giving it their best effort. Photo by Kateri Morris

Police Lt. Jason Wardlow Herrera smacks a fly ball as Deputy Fire Chief Justin Grider holds his catchers mitt and watches the ball sail away. Photo by Read More

Shelling Out Evidence: NIST Ballistic Standard Helps Tie Guns to Criminals

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This cartridge case shows the three distinct marks, or “signatures,” impressed on its surface when it was fired by a gun: the firing pin impression, the breech face impression and the ejector mark. NIST’s standard casing ensures that forensic labs can accurately match signatures on shells found at crime scenes with images in a national database. Courtesy/NIST

NIST News:

Thanks to a new reference standard developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), law enforcement agencies will have an easier time linking the nearly 200,000 cartridge cases Read More

Police Halt Jail Fight This Morning

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Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com

LAPD News:

A fight between inmates broke out this morning at the Los Alamos County Detention Center.

Police officers stepped in and stopped the fight quickly.

Los Alamos Fire Department EMTs were called to the scene and are transporting this 24-year-old inmate to the Los Alamos Medical Center as a precaution.

Medic 3 considers this a non-emergency transport.

The cause of the fight is not readily known.

 

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Los Alamos Police Blotter: Aug. 4 to Aug. 8, 2012

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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.

Aug. 4 at 1:27 p.m. / A 28-year-old Los Alamos woman reported that she was the victim of criminal trespass.

DONAVEN VANWIJKWEIJER

Aug. 4 at 11:10 p.m. / Police arrested Donaven Vanwijkweijer, 18, of Los Alamos in the 1400 block of 40th Street and charged him with criminal trespass, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. 

Aug. 4 at 11 p.m. / Police charged Phillip McFerrine, Read More

Appeals Hearing Held Today for Former County Supply Manager Terminated in June

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Former Los Alamos County Supply Manager Charles Pacheco, foreground, waits for his appeals hearing to begin this morning before the Los Alamos County Personnel Board in Council Chambers inside the Community Building at 20th Street and Central Avenue. Pacheco is appealing his termination in June surrounding criminal charges he is facing related to alleged credit card fraud. Pacheco’s brother Tim sits next to him reviewing documents. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Hearing Officer Tony Ortiz speaks with Employee Services Manager Valerie Park prior to the start of Read More

Fire and Police Host Final ‘Movie in the Park’ Event

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A little girl holds the hand of a large firefighter during Wednesday’s final Movie in the Park event. The Los Alamos Fire and Police Departments sponsored the final Movie in the Park with the Los Alamos County Recreation Department Wednesday. The movie, “Firehouse Dog,” began at sundown. Prior to the movie, police and firefighters hosted fun activities for children including relay races, a chance to check out a police car and a fire engine from the inside out, and more. Los Alamos Animal Control, the DWI Planning Council and dispatchers, police and fire personnel were available to answer Read More

‘Lunch With A Leader’ Features Police Chief Wayne Torpy

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Los Alamos Police Chief Wayne Torpy was Thursday’s featured speaker at the League of Women Voters monthly “Lunch with a Leader” at the Pajarito Environmental Education Center on Orange Street. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

League of Women Voters members Betty Ann Gunther, left, and Rosmarie Fredrickson speak with Los Alamos Police Chief Wayne Torpy following his talk Thursday at PEEC. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

 

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LANL Protesters Plead ‘Not Guilty’ and Hunger Strike Continues

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Anti-nuclear peace activist, Barbara Grothus of Albuquerque, left, files a “not guilty” plea with Court Administrator Lisa Zuhn of the Los Alamos County Municipal Court. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com

By Greg Kendall

Not Guilty

Los Alamos County Municipal Court Judge Alan Kirk presided over this morning’s arraignment of six demonstrators arrested Monday for blocking traffic during a protest at Los Alamos National Laboratory. 

Protesters Janet Greenwald, Barbara Grothus, Pam Gilchrist, Benjamin (Summer) Abbott, Catherine Euler and Cathie Sullivan Read More

BREAKING NEWS: Injured Hiker Rescued

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Los Alamos firefighters, assisted by Los Alamos police officers, located and rescued an adult male with injuries who had fallen near the area at the bottom the Main Hill Road near the wastewater treatment plant a few minutes ago. Battalion Chief Paul Grano explained at the scene that the man had what initially appears to be minor injuries, adding that LAFD transported the man to Los Alamos Medical Center. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Los Alamos Fire Battalion Chief Paul Grano, white shirt, debriefs firefighters following their successful rescue of an injured man near the wastewater Read More