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 …