Gabriele Arsiaga/News-Sun Twenty-four Tatum elementary school students graduated in April from the Lea County Sheriff’s Office’s first Drug Abuse Resistance Education program and fifth grader Lilianna Rojas won first place for the essay portion of the course. According to LCSO Corporal Travis Hobbs, Rojas was selected as the winner of the essay portion of the class because in her essay …

GABRIELLE ARSIAGA /NEWS-SUN Andrew Green, 32, of Jal, was arrested on April 4 — after he allegedly stole more than $11,520 worth of oilfield piping — and was charged with larceny over $ 2,500, under$20,000, a third-degree felony. According to a Lea County Sheriff’s Office criminal complaint, deputies were dispatched to Copper Cemetery Road in Jal for an oilfield theft …

GABRIELLE ARSIAGA /NEWS-SUN Andrew Green, 32, of Jal, was arrested on April 4 — after he allegedly stole more than $11,520 worth of oilfield piping — and was charged with larceny over $ 2,500, under$20,000, a third-degree felony. According to a Lea County Sheriff’s Office criminal complaint, deputies were dispatched to Copper Cemetery Road in Jal for an oilfield theft …

Blake Ovard/News-Sun When demolition crews go to work in a building, they never know what might be lurking inside, out of sight. One of the last things they usually expect to find inside a wall is a bag of narcotics. But that’s what one group of construction workers found when they were recently remodeling a building in Hobbs. The crew …

Gabrielle Arsiaga/News-Sun A Hobbs man who has been arrested more than 14 times since 2015, was once again arrested, making number 15 — this time for arson. Reid Menefee, 29, of Hobbs, was arrested on March 25 on a warrant for arson less than $250, a misdemeanor. According to a Hobbs Police Department criminal complaint, on March 6, an off-duty …

Gabrielle Arsiaga/News-Sun Interviews are underway for the next police chief for the City of Hobbs. Out of nine applicants, the city is down to the final four. The pool includes a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, the current interim chief of police for the Hobbs Police Department, the director of safety and security at ASM Global, …

GABRIELLE ARSIAGA/NEWS-SUN A Hobbs man was arrested on March 11 after officials said he was caught with more than $113,000 worth of stolen equipment and trailers. Alberto Trevizo, 42, of Hobbs, was arrested on March 11 on warrants for receiving stolen property, over $20,000 a second-degree felony; receiving stolen property, over $2,500, under $20,000, a third-degree felony; and receiving stolen …

GABRIELLE ARSIAGA/NEWS-SUN A Hobbs man was arrested on March 11 after officials said he was caught with more than $113,000 worth of stolen equipment and trailers. Alberto Trevizo, 42, of Hobbs, was arrested on March 11 on warrants for receiving stolen property, over $20,000 a second-degree felony; receiving stolen property, over $2,500, under $20,000, a third-degree felony; and receiving stolen …

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press From the logging roads of the Pacific Northwest to the farm country of the Great Plains and beyond, it’s not uncommon for people in rural parts of the U.S. to learn to drive when they’re young, sometimes even before they reach their teens. But the news that a 13-year-old was behind the wheel of a …

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press From the logging roads of the Pacific Northwest to the farm country of the Great Plains and beyond, it’s not uncommon for people in rural parts of the U.S. to learn to drive when they’re young, sometimes even before they reach their teens. But the news that a 13-year-old was behind the wheel of a …