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

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NMSP News:

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

NMSP 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 Read More

NMSP Investigates OIS Involving Artesia Police Department

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Courtesy/NMSP

NMSP News:

ARTESIA — The New Mexico State Police, (NMSP) Investigations Bureau was requested to investigate an officer-involved shooting Saturday involving the Artesia Police Department (APD). 

The incident occurred at approximately 9:02 p.m. near the intersection of West Center and 18th Street in Artesia.  

Initial information is as follows:

Investigations Bureau agents learned APD officers were dispatched to a domestic violence call at 1815 West Center Ave. involving 43-year-old Clifton Stevenson. When they arrived at the residence, officers were told Stevenson Read More

DEA Issues Letter To E-Commerce Companies On Sale Of Pill Presses Used To Make Fentanyl Pills

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A pill press used to make fentanyl pills. Courtesy/DEA

DEA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has issued a letter to e-commerce companies regarding the sale of pill presses. As regulated entities under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), e-commerce platforms are generally required to comply with CSA recordkeeping, identification, and reporting requirements on the distribution, importation, and exportation of pill press machines.

The United States is in the midst of an unprecedented drug poisoning epidemic. In 2022, approximately 110,757 Americans Read More

LAPD Traffic Alert Update: Lanes Open Near Camino Entrada

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LAPD Traffic Alert Update:

Traffic is open east bound and westbound on East Road/N.M. 502 near the intersection of Camino Entrada.

At 6:47 a.m. a crash occurred involving four vehicles. Two drivers were transported with injuries.

LAPD is still investigating the crash and asks drivers to drive slowly or avoid the area.

Police also ask that westbound drivers seeking to turn right into Camino Entrada bypass the crash and make a right turn into Main Gate Park when safe to do so and return westbound to turn into Camino Entrada.

LAPD will update the public when the roadway is clear. Read More

FBI: Las Cruces Man Convicted Of Federal Firearms Offense Faces Up To 10 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’s Albuquerque Field Office, announced that Feb. 13, 2024, a federal jury returned a guilty verdict against Jesus Coronado, 42, of Las Cruces.

The jury convicted Coronado of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Judge Margaret I. Strickland presided.

A federal grand jury returned a superseding indicted against Coronado June 21, 2023. According to publicly available court documents, Dec. 11, 2021, a woman was leaving Read More

FBI El Paso Holds Second Annual Cyber Symposium

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FBI El Paso Cyber Task Force this week at their second annual Cyber Symposium. Courtesy/FBI

FBI News:

EL PASO, Texas — The FBI El Paso Cyber Task Force held their second annual Cyber Symposium this week to discuss cybercrime and other malicious cyber activities.

More than 120 participants from the private sector and law enforcement agencies attended the two-day symposium held on Fort Bliss. Participants received briefings and participated in break-out sessions discussing Cyber Enabled-Elder Fraud, Reverse Engineering Malware, Cryptocurrency 101, Darkside of Social Media, and the FBI’s Read More

DEA Arrests For Fentanyl Surpass Heroin In FY-2021

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DEA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. ― Arrests by the Drug Enforcement Administration for fentanyl offenses exceeded those for heroin offenses for the first time in fiscal year 2021, according to a new Bureau of Justice Statistics report, Heroin, Fentanyl, and Other Opioid Offenses in Federal Courts, 2021.

During FY 2021, the DEA made 3,138 arrests for fentanyl, 2,591 arrests for heroin and 676 arrests for other opioid offenses. From FY 2020 to FY 2021, there was a 36% increase in arrests made by the DEA for fentanyl and a 29% decrease in arrests for heroin.

The DEA also reported an increase (1,528 arrests, Read More

FBI: Navajo Man Pleads Guilty To Assault Upon Federal Officer And Assault Resulting In Serious Bodily Injury

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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’s Albuquerque Field Office, announced that Kenneth Lee Begay pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of assault upon a federal officer inflicting bodily injury and one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury.

Begay, 59, of Newcomb, N.M., and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, will remain on conditions of release pending sentencing, which has not been scheduled.

June 4, 2023, after Begay interrupted a Chapter House Read More