Michael Walton

City Police Arrest Suspected Burglar at Home

      Española police recovered a plethora of property stolen from a Las Lomas apartment last month, arrested a man wanted for allegedly stealing...

Prisoner Gets Special Visit by Politicos, Deputy

     A back room gathering of three Rio Arriba County politicos and a probation absconder violated courtroom rules in Tierra Amarilla last week, causing...

Bow Hunters Attacked Near Gallina

    A group of unknown and supposedly heavily armed individuals last month allegedly assaulted two bow hunters from Aztec, N.M. while the men were...

Man Arrested for Shooting Friend in Leg

     Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies arrested an Española man last week who allegedly shot his friend in the leg Oct. 3.     The alleged...

Police Make Arrest in Hotel Robbery

    One Comfort Inn patron’s night went from bad to worse Sept. 28 after a group of men beat and robbed him, and then...

State Police Dig up 192 Pot Plants in Ojo Caliente

State Police seized nearly 200 plants last week from a secluded marijuana plantation near Ojo Caliente where an unknown grower used green technology to...

Elks Best Dons in Three Strong Quarters

    The Pojoaque Elks took the lead early and hung on to defeat the West Las Vegas Dons in what could be the last...

City Police Slow with Records

    Several incomplete or missing incident reports suggest not all is well regarding record keeping at the Española Police Department.     In response to a...

Man Gets Life Sentence in Baby’s Death

    Before a state District Court Judge sentenced Nathan Montoya to life in prison for killing 17-month-old BreAndra Peña in March 2011, family members...

Santa Clara Man Accused of Witness Retaliation

    A Santa Cruz resident alleged earlier this month that a relative of convicted-murder Donald Ferran threatened him in an attempt to retaliate against...

Police Track Armed Robber

   Most customers at Walmart pay for expensive electronics before trying to leave the store with them, but one Chimayó man opted to pull...

Conflicting Stories in Infant’s Death

   As an Española ambulance approached a double-wide trailer on Lopez Lane March 8, 2011 in reference to an unresponsive infant, then-paramedic Randy Sanches...

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