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State Police Checkpoints And Saturation Patrols Launch Across New Mexico Throughout September

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Don’t even think about drinking and driving. Courtesy photo

NMSP News:

SANTA FE – State Police will be conducting sobriety checkpoints, saturation patrols and registration, insurance and driver’s license checkpoints in all New Mexico counties during the month of September 2017.

NMSP is bringing awareness to these events in an effort to reduce alcohol related fatalities through continued media attention and intensive advertising. These checkpoints are helping to change society’s attitude about drinking and driving.

Hundreds of lives could be saved Read More

Eckhart Jailed After 4th Probation Violation

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By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post

Los Alamos Magistrate Judge Pat Casado revoked conditions of release for Garrett Eckhart, 35, of Los Alamos in court Thursday following his fourth violation of pre-trial probation and ordered him to remain in custody until his preliminary hearing Sept. 5.

Judge Casados rendered her ruling just one day after District Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer allowed Eckhart to remain on conditions of release after he tested positive for alcohol and tetrahydrocannabinol, an ingredient in marijuana, and ordered him to use a Sobrietor remote alcohol Read More

Alert: Police Seek Public’s Assistance In Case Involving Fuel Tank Tampering On Several Vehicles In White Rock

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LAPD News:

The Los Alamos Police Department Investigations Section is investigating several reports of vehicles having their fuel tanks tampered with.

LAPD is requesting the public’s assistance with any information related to suspicious persons in the White Rock area who have been seen underneath parked vehicles.

LAPD is offering a reward up to $150 to anyone who has information, which leads to the arrest of the suspect(s).

Anyone with information can call Los Alamos Crime Stoppers at 505.662.8282. Reporting individuals can remain anonymous. Read More

LAFD Emergency Medical Calls On The Rise

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LAFD EMS Division Chief Benjamin Stone stands next to a machine that dispenses medication to LAFD personnel to replenish those administered during their shift. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com

 

By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post

The Los Alamos Fire Department has responded to 1,046 calls for emergency medical services (EMS) so far this year, up 144 from the same period last year.

EMS Division Chief Benjamin Stone said he has carefully documented each one of those calls and is proud of LAFD’s response to them. In 2015, the Department responded Read More

Los Alamos Police Blotter: Aug. 20-22, 2017

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LAPD News:

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 against them.

DAVID C. BOURASSA

Aug. 20 at 12:54 a.m. / Police arrested David C. Bourassa, 38, of Santa Fe on a Municipal Court order of commitment.

 

 

 

TREVON M. YATES

Aug. 20 at 1:22 a.m. / Police arrested Trevon Yates, 22, of Santa Fe on a Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office order of remand.

 

 

 

AVERY COPE

Aug. 20 at 8:24 p.m. / Police arrested Avery Cope, 31, of Los Alamos on East Road Read More

FBI: Navajo Man Pleads Guilty To Federal Voluntary Manslaughter Charge

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FBI News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE ― Larry June, 58, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, pled guilty Aug. 21 in federal court in Albuquerque, to a voluntary manslaughter charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, June will be sentenced to 97 months in prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
 
The FBI and Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety arrested June in Nov. 2016, on a criminal complaint charging him with killing a Navajo woman by stabbing her with a knife Nov. 25, 2016, on the Navajo Indian Reservation in San
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LAFD Holds Resuscitation Academies Sept. 29-30

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LAFD News: 

 

The Los Alamos Fire Department and The Maryland Resuscitation Academy (RA) will present two consecutive one-day resuscitation academies 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Sept. 29-30 at the University of New Mexico-Los Alamos.

The Maryland RA is a one-day, intensive course dedicated to improving survival rates of patients suffering pre-hospital cardiac arrest and is suitable for emergency medical services (EMS) supervisors, medical directors, fire/EMS chiefs, EMS personnel of all levels and hospital and emergency department staffs across New Mexico Read More

Plea Agreement Reached In Stahl Case

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MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post

Under the terms of a plea agreement signed Aug. 21 in First Judicial Court in Santa Fe, Aleah Stahl agreed to plead guilty to possession of a controlled substance.

She will serve one year of supervised probation with inpatient treatment as approved by Adult Parole and Probation. A second charge of shoplifting was dismissed under the agreement.

Assistant District Attorney Kent Wahlquist asked the Court to keep Stahl in custody until she could go almost immediately into treatment saying that she has shown she is a danger to herself and Read More

Former Manager Of Mescalero Apache Tribe Owned Childcare Center Pleads Guilty To Theft Charge

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FBI News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE ― The former manager of Team Members Childcare Center (TMCC), a childcare center owned by the Mescalero Apache Tribe and operated at the Inn of the Mountain Gods (IMG) on behalf of its employees that require childcare pled guilty Aug. 14 in Federal Court in Las Cruces, to a theft of government money charge.
 
Gina McPherson, 49, of Capitan, was arrested May 1, 2017, and was charged by criminal complaint with theft of public money. According to the criminal complaint, McPherson committed the crime from Sept. 2011 through Jan. 2016, on the Mescalero
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