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DPS In the News | September 1, 2010

State Police on Scene at Animal Cruelty Hoarding Case
Contact: Peter Olson, PIO

 

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...

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DPS In the News | September 1, 2010

Murder Suspect Arrested
Contact: Peter Olson, PIO

 

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...

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DPS In the News | September 1, 2010

Lea County Sherriff’s Deputy Arrested
Contact: Peter Olson, PIO

 

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...

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DPS In the News | August 31, 2010

No Parking No Smuggling
Contact: Peter Olson, PIO

 

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...

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DPS In the News | August 30, 2010

Roll Over Crash Kills One and Leaves Another in Critical
Contact: Lieutenant Eric Garcia, NMSP

 

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...

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