Estancia—While serving a mental health hold for the Veteran’s Administration State Police officers discovered many dogs living in a unsafe and unhygienic home. Raymond Carbel is being held and is...
Farmington-- Steven Lee Sanchez was arrested Tuesday afternoon at about 3:30 at 2705 East Elm St in Farmington on an outstanding homicide warrant out of Taylorville, Utah. The United States Marshals Task Force, known as SWIFT, Southwest Violent Investigative Fugitive Task Force, worked the case and quickly took him into...
Hobbs- Agents from the New Mexico State Police Investigations Bureau arrested 59 year old Danny Surratt of Hobbs on September 1, 2010. Surratt was arrested and charged with 1 count of Criminal Sexual...
Tucumcari—Truck driver Forrest McLaughlin found out that the “No Parking” sign should also read “No Drug Smuggling”. On Monday evening at about 9:45 a Motor Transportation Police officer stopped to find out why McLaughlin’s big rig was parked in a no parking zone on an I-40 off-ramp near Tucumcari. What the officer discovered was more than...
Carlsbad – Juan Castillo 35 y.o. of Clovis New Mexico was killed in a motor vehicle crash this weekend leaving his 11 y.o. passenger in critical condition. Sunday afternoon State Police Officers responded to a single vehicle crash just east of Carlsbad on US Highway 62/180, upon the officers arrival they learned that Juan Castillo was driving his 2000 Isuzu Rodeo east on US 62/180, when it traveled onto the median. Castillo overcorrected to the right causing the vehicle to lose...
Keeping New Mexico safer through safe roads and
safer communities.
To build a safer stronger New Mexico by providing
quality law enforcement services, training, disaster and emergency response;
and technical communications and forensics support to the public and
other governmental agencies.
The Department of Public Safety (DPS) was created
and evolved over the years through statutory changes combining related
functions of the State Police, the Special Investigations Division, the
Law Enforcement Academy, the Motor Transportation Division, the Crime
Laboratory, Emergency Management Operations, Communications, Records,
and Information Technology. This consolidation of functions has dramatically
increased the scope of Departmental responsibilities.
