Lea County Sheriff’s deputies have arrested an Odessa man on two counts of forgery. Wyatt Hambrick, 22, of Odessa, was arrested on May 25 and charged with two counts of forgery, both third-degree felonies. He is accused of cashing two checks totaling approximately $6,320.28 from a business located on the 100 block of east Marland. According to the criminal complaint, …

Four people have been arrested and a fifth has a warrant for his arrest after allegedly holding a man at gunpoint and robbing him last month. According to a Lea County Sheriff’s Office criminal complaint, Samantha Roblez, 20, of Hobbs, and Jeremiah Sanchez, 22, Jesus Carrasco, 27, and Miguel Sandoval, 30, all of Lovington, were arrested for kidnapping and robbery …

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 …

A Lea County Sheriff’s deputy was arrested Wednesday on criminal sexual penetration charges. At around 4 p.m. Wednesday the Hobbs Police Department received a call from the Lea County Detention Center in regards to a female inmate reporting that she had been allegedly sexually assaulted by Edmund Wallace, a  Lea County Sheriff’s deputy, while being transported from Hobbs, to the …

Lea County Sheriff’s deputies completed an annual sex offender compliance operation this weekend that resulted in arrest/hold orders for five of the some 100 registered offenders in the county. A list of offenders and their registered locations can be found at www.offender-watch.com. A number of the offenders listed are incarcerated at the Lea County Detention Center. Sheriff Byron Wester said the …