A Hobbs teenager charged with shooting at a vehicle early Sunday and striking a 15-year-old boy three times will be tried as an adult, the district attorney said Tuesday. Kevin Hernandez, 17, of Hobbs, was charged Sunday with shooting at or from a motor vehicle involving great bodily harm and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. According to police reports, …

Kelli McCall has several “honey-dos” ready. And her husband now has the time to do them. Chris McCall officially retired from the Hobbs Police Department on Thursday, ending a 20-plus year career, with the past 6 1/2 years as police chief. He was the 24th police chief in HPD’s 90-year history. The third-floor conference room of the City Hall Annex …

An armed robbery of a Hobbs convenience store reportedly escalated into a shootout late Dec. 15. No suspects have been identified and no injuries were reported. According to a Hobbs Police Department incident report, a suspect pointed a gun at two clerks at 1:30 a.m. on a Saturday night demanding the store’s employees open the cash drawer of the convenience …

Call of gun fired leads to drug, firearm, child abuse charges Hobbs police made four arrests Saturday morning on different charges, including drug possession, firearm possession and child abuse after officers responded to a south Hobbs residence following a report of a man firing a gun outside. Around 7 a.m. Saturday, Hobbs police officers went to the 100 block of …

HPD: Man assaulted off-duty police officer  A Hobbs man was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly brandished a gun at an off-duty police officer during a road rage incident. Nathan Garcia, 29, was charged with aggravated assault (deadly weapon), a fourth-degree felony. He was booked at the Hobbs City Jail. Around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, an off-duty Hobbs police officer contacted dispatch …

An early morning police chase Friday ended with a driver’s arrest after he allegedly evaded Hobbs police in reported stolen truck, ran stop signs and continued driving after his tires were spiked. Hobbs resident Steven Calderon, 26, was arrested on charges of aggravated fleeing a law enforcement officer, criminal damage to property, receiving or transferring stolen motor vehicle, criminal failure …

An 18-year-old Hobbs man was arrested after leading local and state officers in vehicle chase across the Texas state line, Saturday. Adan Junior Tarin was taken into custody by Gaines County Sheriff’s Department Saturday near Texas County Road 335. An arrest warrant was released by the State of New Mexico, Sunday, for Tarin on charges of aggravated fleeing from a …

Hobbs Police Department officers responded to a report of an armed robbery at Diamond Lil’s Saloon at around 1:18 a.m. Sunday. The victim reported that while he was at the establishment, he was approached by two individuals, identified as Adrian Carmona, 25, and Jawan Mackey, 30, both of Hobbs. The victim got into a vehicle with Carmona and Mackey in …

On Monday,  at around 11:29 p.m. officers were dispatched to the 1000 block of N. Linam in reference to an auto burglary that had just occurred. Upon arrival, the reporting person told officers he heard something being moved in his vehicle outside of his residence. When he went outside to see what the noise was, he saw a male suspect …

Hobbs police officer Jimmy Grimes will miss work today, but not because he wants to. Hurricane Harvey stranded him on a cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico waiting for the Port of Galveston to re-open. Among some 20,000 passengers on four cruise ships in the Gulf of Mexico when the hurricane hit, Grimes said his ship, the Carnival Breeze, …