Police Stop Speeder on Main Hill Road – Discover Drugs, Paraphernalia
Los Alamos Police Officers spotted a vehicle speeding down the Main Hill Road this evening at about 10:30 p.m., pulled it over and found the occupants to be in possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia. Officers were in the process of conducting a Field Sobriety Test on the male driver when this photograph was taken. Police directed traffic around the area of the scene near the shoulder of the road well before Anderson Overlook where two male and one female passengers were being detained. Check the ladailypost.com in the morning for final details and charges involved with this case. Photo by Carol Read More
Los Alamos Police Blotter: April 19 to April 24, 2012
The following information is provided by the Los Alamos Police Department. Neither arrests nor charges indicate a conviction, and neither means that a person is guilty of the charges filed against them.
April 19 at 9:14 a.m. / A 49-year-old Los Alamos woman reported a possible attempt to enter her residence in the 400 block of Ridgecrest Ave.
April 20 at 9:57 a.m. / Police responded to an unattended death of a 92-year-old Los Alamos man in the 700 block of 42nd Street.
April 20 at 10:21 a.m. / Police received a report of a broken window in the 100 block of Longview Drive. The estimated damage is less than Read More
Santa Fe National Forest Fire Management Update
Courtesy/geology.isu.eduGallina WUI Prescribed Burn, Coyote Ranger District
- The project area is located 1mile south of the community of Gallina off of State Highway 96 within the Coyote Ranger District.
- Fifty to 100 acres will be treated over a two day period.
- Smoke released from the burn may be visible from the communities of Gallina, Lindrith, Regina and Llaves.
- The Santa Fe National Forest realizes that smoke from prescribed fire can be a nuisance
Police Charge Local Man in Child Molestation Case
By Carol A. ClarkLos Alamos Police have arrested Stephen M. Geisik of Los Alamos and charged him with criminal sexual penetration of a child less than 13 years of age.
Police also charged Geisik, 21, with contributing to the delinquency of a child.
The charges stem from a March 29 report by the child’s father that she asked him three weeks prior if he could take her to the doctor for a birth control prescription. She reportedly told her father that she was concerned that she may be pregnant by a 21-year-old man.
According to the girl’s initial report, she said that Read More
Sheriff Files Proposed Amendment to Charter
Sheriff Marco Valentino Lucero filed in the Los Alamos County Clerk’s Office Thursday a proposed amendment to Los Alamos County Charter 304.3 “Duties of the Sheriff and Police.”
Current Charter Reading:
Duties of the Sheriff, Police department and Peace Officers. The Council shall establish as a department of the County, [sic] a Police Department to be charged with conserving the peace and enforcing the laws of the State and the enforcing the laws of the State and the ordinances of the County. The Sheriff Shall have those powers and duties assigned to sheriffs by state statutes, including Read More
