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Ashtray-Throwing Man Threatens Woman with Stick

    The police blotter is published to give readers an abridged look at criminal activity in their community and neighborhood. It is simply an...

Cop Fired Amid Brutality Allegations

    An Española Police officer was fired Aug. 18 after an internal affairs investigation found allegations of police brutality lodged against him to be...

Investigator Hurls False Accusations in Harassment Report

    A former State Police captain, commissioned to do an internal affairs investigation of a firefighter, falsely accused him of felony sex crimes in...

Sheriff Challenges Tribal Police

    Rio Arriba County Sheriff James Lujan wants the attorney general to issue an opinion about tribal officers giving non-natives tickets on state easements.    ...

County Democratic Party Members Make Appointments

    Within minutes of opening nominations and voting, Rio Arriba County Commissioner Alex Naranjo and former school board member Joann Salazar were swept into...

Cordova Conviction Overturned

    Juan Cordova may be sitting through another trial after a panel of three Court of Appeals judges reversed District Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer's...

Alleged Wal-Mart Shooter Indicted on Rape Charges

    One of the alleged participants in a Wal-Mart shootout that left a 3-year-old girl with a bullet wound through her leg, has been...

Alleged Road Rage Incident Results in Arrest

    Santa Fe police officers arrested an Española man Monday in Los Alamos, after he allegedly threatened an inattentive driver, April 17, in Santa...

Suspect in Pojoaque Pickaxe Murders Enters Not Guilty Plea

    The man accused of murdering a family of three in El Rancho with a pickaxe in 2011, pleaded not guilty during his arraignment,...

TA Man Killed After Dispute

    Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies charged a Cebolla man with first-degree murder, after he allegedly shot a man in the stomach Monday evening...

District Judge Recuses Herself From Hearing Two Cases

    Elmer Sanchez was set to receive a sentence of three years of supervised probation sentence March 6, in Santa Fe District Court, before...

Armed Robber Facing 28 Years

    For his part in the armed robbery of a former city councilor’s daughter at Allsup’s in 2013, an Española man is facing 28...

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