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New Mexico State Police Checkpoints And Saturation Patrols In Counties Across State In April 2024

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NMSP News:

State Police will be conducting sobriety checkpoints, saturation patrols; and registration, insurance, and driver’s license checkpoints in all New Mexico counties during April 2024. 

We are bringing awareness to these events to reduce impaired driving-related fatalities through continued media attention and intensive advertising.

These checkpoints are helping to change society’s attitude about driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs. 

Hundreds of lives could be saved each year if every driver had the courage to make the right decision not to drive Read More

FBI: Mescalero Man Sentenced For 2022 Assault

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FBI News:

ALBUQUERQUE — A federal judge has handed down a 9-year prison sentence to a Mescalero man after he pleaded guilty to assault resulting in serious bodily injury in a case stemming from a brutal attack on the Mescalero Apache reservation in 2022.

Upon his release from prison, Dennett Jerome Chee, 37, a member of the Mescalero Apache Tribe, will be subject to three years of supervised release.

There is no parole in the federal system.

According to publicly available court records, May 20, 2022, John Doe was at a friend’s house on the Mescalero Apache reservation. Chee and another man arrived Read More

FBI: Woman Faces Federal Charges For Murdering Sons

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FBI News:

ALBUQUERQUE – A woman is facing federal charges for murdering her two young children on the Isleta Pueblo. Mariah Zuni, 32, of Isleta Village, has appeared in federal court for an initial appearance and will remain in temporary custody pending a detention hearing, which was scheduled for March 27, 2024.

The criminal complaint alleges that on March 21, 2024, Zuni used a bread knife to slit the throats of her 5-year-old son and 9-month-old son in their residence on the Isleta Pueblo.

If convicted of the current charges, Zuni faces life in prison.

U.S. Attorney Alexander M.M. Uballez, Read More

Sgt. Chris Ross: A Los Alamos Police Officer’s Story

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Ofc. Chris Ross

By Andy McBride
Los Alamos Daily Post
Student Reporter

When we think of police, we usually think of these big crazy people who  chase you down on the highway for speeding. We think of our laws, we might also think that they are all fat because they go to the doughnut shop.

Well, this officer’s story might make you start judging differently. He is your everyday officer one may see on patrol or around town. His name is Sgt. Chris Ross and he is in charge of the School Resource Officers (SRO) at Los Alamos Public Schools. Ross was born and raised in San Diego, Calif., and grew up within a large Read More

FBI: Newcomb Man Pleads Guilty To Involuntary Manslaughter, Faces Up To 8 Years In Prison

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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 March 6 that Leighton Spencer pleaded guilty in federal court to involuntary manslaughter.

Spencer, 31, of Newcomb, N.M. and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, was placed on conditions of release pending sentencing, which has not been scheduled.

According to publicly available court records, June 2, 2021, John Doe and Spencer were drinking at his residence in Newcomb when John Doe had an altercation Read More

Los Alamos Fire Department To Host Wildfire Day 2024 With Elks Annual Easter Egg Hunt Saturday March 30

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Scene from previous Wildfire Day and Easter Egg Hunt. Courtesy/LAFD

Scene from previous Wildfire Day and Easter Egg Hunt. Courtesy photo

LAFD News:

Los Alamos Fire Department (LAFD) and the Los Alamos Elks Lodge invite the community to join the festivities from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 30 at Ashley Pond Park (2200 Trinity Dr.) for Wildfire Day 2024 and the Annual Elk’s Easter Egg Hunt.

This family-friendly, outreach event includes a close look at LAFD and Los Alamos Police Department specialty equipment, a bicycle safety helmet fitting and distribution, a Classic Air Medical Helicopter Read More

FBI: Arizona Woman Gets 30 Months After Driving Drunk, Crashing Vehicle And Killing Her Child In Albuquerque

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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 Leticia Ashley was sentenced to 30 months in prison.

Ashley, 38, of St. Michaels, Ariz., and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter Oct. 2, 2023.

A federal grand jury indicted Ashley Feb. 23, 2023. According to publicly available court documents, July 29, 2022, Ashley consumed a half-pint of Fireball liquor before she got into the driver’s seat of her Read More

FBI: Crownpoint Woman Gets 30 Months For Involuntary Manslaughter

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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 Friday that Ryntana Yazzie was sentenced to 30 months in prison.

Yazzie, 34, of Crownpoint, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter Nov. 2, 2023.

According to publicly available court documents, Aug. 4, 2020, Yazzie had been drinking alcohol and was driving south on Highway 371 outside Farmington when her vehicle veered into oncoming traffic and struck a Read More

FBI: Hobbs Man Gets 25 Years For Cyberstalking, Firearms

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FBI News:

ALBUQUERQUE – A federal judge sentenced a Hobbs man to federal prison for cyberstalking Jane Doe and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition which he used to shoot and murder her in 2022.

Guadalupe Antonio Navarrete, 37, of Hobbs was sentenced to 25 years in prison followed by 6 years of supervised release.

There is no parole in the federal system.

According to court documents, on Nov. 18, 2022, deputies from the Lea County Sheriff’s Department were dispatched to Navarrete’s residence in Hobbs following a report of an unwanted subject on the premises. Upon arrival, they Read More