By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. Rio Rancho’s speed cameras issued 7,095 citations in May — nearly triple April’s total — as camera deployment shifted heavily onto Unser Boulevard, the city’s busiest north-south corridor. Data from vendor Verra Mobility shows the Safe Traffic Operations Program monitored more than 1 million vehicle passes in May, flagging 12,996 […]
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20-year-old faces felony charges after 112 mph chase on US 550, crash in Bernalillo
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. A 20-year-old man faces five criminal charges — including a felony — after a Sandoval County Sheriff’s deputy clocked his vehicle at 112 mph on northbound US 550 Monday morning and pursued him through a crash that ended on a dirt road near the Bernalillo border. According to a criminal […]
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Carjacked ABQ vehicle found in Corrales
An Albuquerque crime Friday extended into the Village of Corrales, when officers recovered the stolen ride. According to a news release from the Corrales Police Department, officers were dispatched to Via Oreada for a report of a suspicious vehicle. Upon arriving, the release states, officers discovered that the unoccupied sedan had been stolen during an […]
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Ancient remains close 23-year cold case in Sandoval County
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. Human remains found near Cochiti 23 years ago are not the bones of a missing person — they belong to a man who walked the region roughly 1,000 years ago, the Sandoval County Sheriff’s Office announced June 5. Detective Don Chewning said forensic family genealogy testing, funded by the Bureau […]
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Rio Rancho adding 3 speed cameras to N.M. 528, a road that has killed 7 in 18 months
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. Three new speed cameras are headed to N.M. 528 — the Rio Rancho corridor that has seen two fatal crashes in six weeks and claimed seven lives in 18 months — as state and city officials escalate automated enforcement on the highway. Rio Rancho police will deploy the units June […]
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New Mexico A.G. sues Kalshi, says popular prediction market app is illegal sportsbook
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. — New Mexico residents who bet on sports, elections, or pop culture through the Kalshi app may be doing so illegally — and the state wants it stopped. Attorney General Raúl Torrez filed suit Thursday in Santa Fe against Kalshi, Inc. and KalshiEX LLC, alleging the New York-based prediction market […]
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Community rallies around family of motorcyclist killed on NM 528
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. Friends, family and the broader Rio Rancho community turned out May 30 for a car and motorcycle show honoring Dante Gallegos, 22, who was killed in a motorcycle crash on NM Highway 528 on May 13 — the latest fatality on a corridor that has claimed seven lives in 18 […]
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Man arrested after SWAT standoff near Rio Rancho-Albuquerque border following alleged domestic assault
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. An Albuquerque man faces three felony charges of aggravated battery after police say he strangled his girlfriend multiple times before barricading himself at a Westside Boulevard storage facility Sunday, triggering a hours-long SWAT standoff that shut down a stretch of the road near the Albuquerque-Rio Rancho border. Albuquerque police arrested […]
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New Mexico’s Epstein ‘truth commission’ to issue 14 subpoenas
By Joshua Bowling, Source New Mexico — New Mexico’s “truth commission” charged with investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes in the state, on Monday announced it would issue 14 subpoenas to government agencies, banks and the Santa Fe Institute to investigate who at those agencies and companies was in contact with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. The state […]
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Paseo del Norte closes Thursday for blasting near Unser as construction continues
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. Rio Rancho and Westside commuters face a two-day closure on Paseo del Norte this week as construction crews blast through basalt to install storm drainage on a corridor serving tens of thousands of daily drivers. Paseo del Norte will close between Universe Boulevard and Unser Boulevard from about noon Thursday, […]