Seven days after the Española School District was served with a search warrant, Attorney General investigators raided the house of County Commissioner Barney Trujillo, Friday morning.
Investigators with the Attorney General’s Office raided Trujillo’s Chimayó residence with the help of State Police officers, playing the role of armed security.
While at Trujillo’s house, Investigator Jon Bergevin said he could not elaborate on the raid and directed all questions to the Attorney General Spokesman James Hallinan.
Hallinan responded via email, that the Attorney General’s Office neither confirms nor denies the existence of investigations, even though Bergevin directed all questions to him.
When the Española School District was raided Jan. 13, Attorney General’s Office investigators seized emails, computers and other electronic data related to the communications of Joseph Torres, Barney Trujillo, current superintendent Eric Martinez, and former superintendents Danny Trujillo and Bobbie Gutierrez, part of a list of 25 people from whom they wanted the communications.
In the search warrant served on the District, Lianne Martinez, Joseph Torres and Barney Trujillo are listed as the targets of the warrant.
First Judicial District Judge Matthew Wilson signed that search warrant on Jan. 12.
The 14 pages of probable cause listed in the search warrant, as given to the District, have the word “REDACTED” pasted diagonally across them.
Hallinan refused to say if the search warrants had been sealed and, if they had been, what reason investigators gave the judge.
In order for a judge to grant a search warrant, he must be presented with probable cause that either a crime has been committed or evidence of a crime is being concealed somewhere. If the judge finds there is probable cause, he will sign off on the warrant.