Seconds after a woman allegedly stole a vehicle, she fled from police in the car before leaving it at a stop sign. Luisa Soto, 24, of Hobbs, was arrested on Feb. 9 and charged with unlawful taking of a motor vehicle, a third-degree felony after allegedly fleeing from police and abandoning a stolen vehicle she was driving. According to the …
After allegedly trying to sell stolen appliances on Facebook, two men were arrested and charged in the crime. Joel Garcia Espinoza, 28, and Tomas Valenzuela-Hernandez, 24, were both arrested after attempting to sell stolen kitchen appliances online. According to a Hobbs Police Department criminal complaint, a contractor of a home contacted police on Monday when he noticed stolen appliances being …
More auto burglaries have been reported this year compared to 2019. A common theme Hobbs Police Department has noticed in 2020 is firearms are being taken in the process. Hobbs has seen a major spike in auto burglaries from last year – up more than 200% in August alone. Reports decreased in September, but are still 65% more than the …
Officers with the Hobbs Police Department were called to a motel on the 600 block of N. Marland in reference to a subject with a gun on Thursday. “The initial dispatch report was the subject was going to different rooms and pointing the gun at them, it was also reported the subject had kicked the front door open and entered …
The parents who allegedly used their four children as props to panhandle for money in Hobbs and were charged with child abuse, have gone missing with the children. Andrei Cristian Ducila, 25, and Luiza Badea, 22, were both charged with four counts of abuse of a child, all third-degree felonies; after police found the family of six outside a retail …
A Hobbs man and woman believed to have been murdered were found dead in their home Monday night. Police said they are investigating the double homicide and have persons of interest in mind, although no arrests had been made as of presstime Tuesday. “We have some persons of interest that we are looking into,” said Brian Dunlap, acting Hobbs chief …
