Below is the link to the petition document filed in the N.M. Supreme Court from the N.M. Attorney General. For the full story, see Thursday’s News-Sun. The AG is taking the Lea County Sheriff’s Office and Sheriff Corey Helton to court to force the department to enforce the governor’s health orders concerning COVID-19. The filing points out sheriff deputies posted …
On any given day a police officer will have to make many split-second decisions. Those decisions can be the difference in life or death. The Lea County Sheriff Office now has a visual way to re-live events law enforcement officers all over the county had to make in a split decision on, or a possible new scenario they again will …
While allegedly trying to burglarize vehicles, four teenagers were caught by police after evading arrest. A 15-year-old male runaway, a 13-year-old male runaway and a 13-year-old male juvenile were all arrested on June 21 and charged with accessory and burglary, both fourth-degree felonies; and resisting, evading, obstructing an officer, a petty misdemeanor. A 15-year-old male juvenile was also arrested on …
After allegedly beating a woman and stealing her purse, Ricardo Utajara was arrested and charged with robbery. Utajara, 30, of Lovington, was arrested on Tuesday after the victim was sent to Nor Lea Hospital in Lovington for injuries she sustained during the assault. A Lea County Sheriff’s criminal complaint states the victim was driving home early in the morning on …
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to end legal protections for 650,000 immigrants, his second election-season loss from the court in a week after Monday’s ruling that it’s illegal to fire people because they’re gay or transgender. For now, the young immigrants retain their protection from deportation and their authorization to work in …
Raul Juarez, 34, of Lovington was arrested for shoplifting and was found to have a warrant for stealing more than $17,000 worth of electric motors from a repair shop. Juarez was arrested on June 6 and charged with larceny over $2,500, a third-degree felony; possession of a controlled substance, a fourth-degree felony; shoplifting, a misdemeanor; and possession of marijuana, a …
James Melvin Scott will head to district court on charges of neglect of his 23-year old son with muscular dystrophy, Brandon, resulting in death after the case was bound over by Division Four Judge David Finger on Tuesday. Originally James Melvin Scott was charged with abuse of a resident, a second-degree felony and, in the alternative, neglect of a resident, …
After kicking the door into a home, a Hobbs man threatened the resident by pointing a gun at his head. Jacob Nathaniel Puente, 27, of Hobbs, was arrested on April 30 and charged with aggravated burglary, a second-degree felony; and aggravated assault, a fourth-degree felony. According to the Hobbs Police Department arrest report, a mother and son were in the …
Two men were purposely crashing their cars into one another — with one of those vehicles having a child in the back seat. James Robert Dowell, 19, of Hobbs, was arrested on Thursday and charged with two counts of aggravated battery, both third-degree felonies; and abuse of a child, a fourth-degree felony. Javier Rolando Bosquez Jr., 25, of Hobbs, was …
Almost a month after being arrested for stealing a school vehicle, a Hobbs man was accused of using that stolen vehicle to burglarize another local business in the same night. Colton Wayne Hampton, 29, was arrested on Friday for burglary, a fourth-degree felony. A Lea County Sheriff’s Office report says a victim told officers someone had broken into his shop …
