Public Safety

SFNF: Bales Fire Update

SFNF News:
 
Bales Fire Update:
 
Start Date: Smoke reported Sept. 14
 
Cause: Lightning
 
Size: 14 acres
 
Location: Cuba Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest
 
Containment: 50%
 
Fuels: Mixed conifer, dead and down
 
Weather: Partly cloudy, winds out of southwest 5-10 mph
 
Resources: 50 personnel
 
Situation: The Bales Fire is in the Bales Canyon area along Forest Road 534 approximately two and one half miles southwest of the Chaparral Girl Scout Camp on the Cuba Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest. Fire activity is
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FBI Still Investigating Tara Calico Case

Tara Calico
 
FBI News:
 
The FBI and Valencia County Sheriff’s Office would like to remind the public on the 30th anniversary of Tara Calico’s disappearance that this is still an active missing-person investigation.
 
The FBI has released an age-progressed photo of how Calico could look today in the hopes anyone who might have seen her recently will come forward.
 
Calico disappeared Sept. 20, 1988, as she rode a bicycle near her home in Belen. She was last seen riding along Highway 47 in Valencia County at approximately 11:45 a.m. on that day.
 
Anyone
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NMDOT Sponsors Statewide Child Safety Seat Clinics

NMDOT News:
 
SANTA FE The New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) sponsors annual statewide child safety seat clinics 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Sept. 29.
 
The clinics take place in five cities and six different locations as part of National Child Passenger Safety Week Seat Check Saturday.
 
“The NMDOT is pleased to participate in this national traffic safety initiative and to offer this valuable service,” NMDOT Cabinet Secretary Tom Church said. “Through education, advocacy, and community outreach efforts such as this that we can help keep New Mexico families
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NMSP Probe Bernalillo Police Shooting And Homicide

NMSP News:
 
The Bernalillo Police Department (BPD) asked the New Mexico State Police Sept. 3 to investigate a police shooting involving one of their officers.
 
The New Mexico State Police Investigations Bureau is investigating this shooting.
 
Preliminary information indicates around 6:30 p.m., Sept. 3, two BPD officers were dispatched to a shots-fired call at the KOA Campground at 555 South Hill Road in Bernalillo. Officers were given limited information from 911 calls that Fernand “Fred” Lete, 70, of Rio Rancho had shot another male subject inside a camp trailer at the
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Udall, Heinrich On Bill Prohibiting ‘Gag Clauses’ That Cause Consumers To Overpay For Prescriptions

U.S. SENATE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) announced the passage of the Patient Right to Know Drug Prices Act to put an end to the use of “gag clauses” by health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers, an egregious practice that conceals lower prescription drug prices from patients at the pharmacy, causing consumers to needlessly overpay.
 
The bipartisan bill, introduced by U.S. Senators Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) and cosponsored by Udall and Heinrich, now goes to the House of Representatives
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