In the culmination of a year-long investigation by the Criminal Investigations Division of the Lovington Police Department, a Fort Worth man was arrested Thursday, Aug. 31 in Texas and charged with seven counts of embezzlement relating to the construction of the Lovington Trails apartment complex, located adjacent to Nor-Lea Hospital in the City of Lovington. The complex comprises of 64 …

Hobbs Police Department investigate East Sanger incident after gunshot wound call at 409 East Sanger in Hobbs. One patient was transported to Lea Regional Medical Center.

A Hobbs man was arrested Thursday night after attempting hit residents with his car and leading Hobbs Police in a vehicle chase. At around 11:20 p.m., Hobbs Police Officers responded to the area of Fowler and Midwest in reference to a call of an aggravated assault. The caller advised a male subject, later identified as Leonardo Marquez Jr, 25, of …

          On Sunday, Hobbs Police Officers learned that Desilee Atkins, 22 of Amarillo, was advertising on an internet website as currently in Hobbs looking for companionship. Officers acting in an undercover capacity contacted Atkins who agreed to meet at a local hotel room and perform a sexual act for $100.00. Atkins arrived at the hotel room …

Seven Lea County residents are behind bars on federal narcotics trafficking and money laundering charges as part of a multi-agency investigation led by the DEA into a drug trafficking organization based in Hobbs. The seven residents, four of them Mexican nationals, and a resident of Yuma, Ariz., allegedly imported methamphetamine and cocaine into Lea County from Mexico through Arizona. Those arrested Wednesday include Jose Raul Mendivil-Berrelleza, …

A New Mexico man is behind bars after he opened fire on a Chaves County deputy at a rest stop west of Tatum Wednesday. The Lea County Sheriff’s Office assisted in the capture of the man. No one was injured in the incident. The shootout took place near the Waldrop Rest Area on U.S. Hwy. 380, about 30 miles west …

PORTALES, N.M. (AP) — The eastern New Mexico home daycare where a small child died this week after being left in a hot car had been commended in a past inspection by state officials, according to public documents. But the state Children, Youth and Families Department has now revoked the license of the daycare in Portales after two young children …

SANTA FE (AP) — The New Mexico Supreme Court is considering whether public defense attorneys are being stretched too thin to adequately represent poor people facing possible jail time. The independent agency overseeing public defense attorneys across New Mexico wants the court to step in and help deal with what it says are overwhelming case numbers, possibly by dismissing some …

On Sept. 5, 2015 an arrest warrant was filed in Hobbs for Leonardo Morales, Jr., 24,  after detectives investigated a fatal wreck involving a motorcycle and a vehicle that occurred on Sept. 4, 2015 at Turner and Yeso streets. Morales turned in front of a motorcycle driven by Joshua Lewis, 26 of Hobbs, causing a collision and the death of Lewis. …

A Hobbs woman was arrested Sunday on a felony charge after Hobbs police found her five-year-old son “wandering” in a neighborhood unattended on multiple occasions. Yesenia Flores, 35, was arrested and charged with abandonment or abuse of a child, a third-degree felony. On Sunday, officers responded to two separate calls regarding a young boy wandering the neighborhood unattended, without shoes, …