Public Safety

Letter To The Editor: Vote ‘For’ Question 1 To Eliminate Dangerous Confusion

By ROBERT GIBSON*
Los Alamos

John Horne’s recent letter cites various state statutes (laws) granting powers to county sheriffs. Unmentioned is the New Mexico Constitution, which is superior to those laws. Art. X, Sec 5C grants to Los Alamos County the power, through our County Charter, to establish our “form and organization … of government” and to “designate those officers which shall be elected.” The same section also allows us to designate “those officers and employees which shall perform the duties assigned by law to county officers.”

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Smoke Alarm May Have Saved Life In Local House Fire

Los Alamos Firefighters battle the blaze at a home at 108 Sherwood Blvd. Wednesday morning in White Rock. Photo by Stephen Rinaldi/LAFDPhoto by Stephen Rinaldi/LAFD

Los Alamos Firefighters quickly contained the fire at 108 Sherwood Blvd. Wednesday morning and kept it from burning adjacent homes. Photo by Stephen Rinaldi/LAFD

The boarded up home Sunday at 108 Sherwood Blvd. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

 

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
 
A blaring smoke alarm woke the male resident asleep Wednesday morning inside his home at 108 Sherwood Blvd., in White Rock.
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Letter To The Editor: Vote AGAINST Option 1 And Keep Your Sheriff

By JOHN N. HORNE
Los Alamos County Undersheriff
 
Los Alamos County Charter Section 304.3:

Deputies of the Sheriff, police department, and peace officers. The council shall establishes as a Department of the county, a police department to be charged with conserving the peace and enforcing the laws of the state and the ordinances of the county. The sheriff shall have those powers and duties assigned to the sheriff by state statutes including the powers of a peace officer, but the sheriff shall not duplicate or perform those duties in this charter or by ordinance or resolution assigned or Read More

FBI Seeks Woman Who Robbed Albuquerque Bank One Year Ago

FBI News:

Oct. 27, 2015, between approximately 12:30 p.m. and 1 p.m., an unknown female robbed the Bank of Albuquerque branch at 201 Wyoming Boulevard NE in Albuquerque.

The FBI and Albuquerque Police Department are still looking for her.

Anyone with information about this robbery is asked to call the FBI at 505.889.1300 or Albuquerque Metro Crime Stoppers, anonymously, at 505.843.STOP.

Tips also can be submitted online at tips.fbi.gov.

The FBI may pay a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to arrest and conviction of this bank robber.

Information about this and other bank robbers

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