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Couple Tries to Make Sense of Shooting

    Fatima Trujillo walked to a floor-to-ceiling mirror in the front room of her trailer on a warm October night.     She lifted up her...

ProSec Owner Files Tort Claim Against School District

   A former Española School Board member and former Rio Arriba County Commissioner is poised to take legal action against the District as a...

Crews Must Run Long Water Lines to Reach House Fire

    An old and abandoned house went up in smoke, and then in billowing flames Oct. 16, next to the Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative...

City Drops Nuisance Case Against P&Z Commissioner

    The city of Española has dropped its case against Planning Commissioner J.R. Trujillo for code violations on his storage yard.     Española Municipal Court...

Public Servants See Cycle of Domestic Violence

   Domestic violence is described as being a three-part cycle that steadily becomes more violent with each iteration.     It starts out with the honeymoon...

Threatening Note Sparks Lockdown at Mesa Vista High School

   A lockdown Oct. 6 at the Mesa Vista Middle and High School, caused by a note threatening a student, is suspected of being...

Man Leads Police on City Chase; Blows Four Times Legal Limit

    Drunk driving charges have been dropped against a Hernandez man, after he led deputies on a pursuit, Oct. 5, through the middle of...

Sex Offender Wanted For Animal Cruelty

    On the surveillance footage, Joseph Crawmer, 69, is naked as the day he was born.     He walks back and forth while a cat...

No Circus in Town, But Plenty of Clowning around

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

County, Sheriff’s Employees Face Four-Count Lawsuit

    Abiquiú resident Charlene Carroll had been home for a little less than an hour Aug. 14, 2014, when she said she stepped outside...

Police Plan Annual Drug Take-Back

By Wheeler Cowperthwaite SUN Staff Writer     For the past few years, the Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s Office has taken 200 pounds of discarded or unwanted...

Local State Police Make Meth Bust

    State Police investigators arrested three people on trafficking charges and seized more than a pound of methamphetamine, Sept. 28, following more than a...

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