A third officer under investigation for corruption within the Albuquerque Police Department’s DWI unit has resigned before being interviewed by internal investigators. Harvey Johnson resigned on Wednesday. Gilbert Gallegos, an APD spokesperson, said he was scheduled to be interviewed for the internal investigation today. Johnson is one of six APD officers who were put on […]
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Death of adult film star in Albuquerque gets national, international attention
Twelve days ago, local homicide detectives were called to a Northeast Albuquerque apartment complex to investigate a woman’s death after she was found “unresponsive” by her family. Now it’s been more than a week and her death has been reported by national — and even international — outlets, including the New York Post, The Daily […]
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Muslim community reflects as first trial in spate of killings begins
As Muslims began their Ramadan fasts on Monday, Muhammad Syed — an Afghan refugee who came to Albuquerque in 2016 — prepared to face a jury on one count of murder in the 2022 slaying of a fellow Muslim, Aftab Hussein. It is the first of three trials in a case that shook Albuquerque’s Muslim […]
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Bernalillo County Sheriff launches animal cruelty reporting portal
The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office has a new Animal Cruelty Report Form on its website to help notify the county’s Animal Cruelty Task Force of suspected animal abuse. Anyone who has witnessed animal cruelty can fill out the request form and remain anonymous if they choose. The form has a space to report the address […]
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Roswell police have new patches that are out of this world, with flying saucers and alien faces
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press Famous for being the spot where a spacecraft purportedly crashed in 1947, Roswell, New Mexico, has become a mecca for people fascinated by extraterrestrial phenomena. So it’s only fitting that the city’s police force has uniform patches that are out of this world. Unveiled on Friday, the new patches […]
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What should happen after the city has completed the police reform effort?
As the federally mandated reform of the Albuquerque Police Department closes in on 10 years — and the end is in sight — community policing groups have begun thinking about what comes next. With that in mind, a policing expert who has worked on consent decrees in Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore, Md., visited the Southwest […]
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Man serves joy through popcorn
On Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, the lobby of 505 Marquette Ave. is permeated with the comforting aroma of “better than movie theater” popcorn and the warm laughter of an Albuquerque man who loves making people’s days better. Not everyone who enters the lobby of the building is having their best day. The building houses the […]
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K9 School Helps Police Dogs Take a Bite Out of Crime
On Feb 27, an abandoned movie theater and a vacant building that was once a bar off of Coors and Paseo was transformed into training grounds for some of New Mexico’s law enforcement officers. What made this training unique was that many of the police participating in the training exercises were not humans, they were […]
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AG gets funding for proposed missing and murdered Indigenous people task force
Attorney General Raúl Torrez will have $200,000 at his disposal to create a new task force focused on the disproportionate rates at which Indigenous people experience violence and go missing. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham kept the funding allocated by lawmakers in the $10.2 billion state budget she approved today. It will be available in the next fiscal […]
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Nine yrs. later, BCSO returns suspect to ABQ from Mexico to stand trial for murder
On Christmas Eve in 2014, a family member returning home from church found Idali Reyes’ body dead in her South Valley home. Two suspects were arrested shortly thereafter but a third, Jesus Alberto Chacon Morales, was never located. But that all changed Wednesday afternoon when the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department announced that Chacon Morales had […]