Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents have become interested in the inner circle of New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, the Santa Fe Reporter writes. According to the Reporter, agents have been interviewing close political allies of the Republican over a lucrative, 25-year lease the state signed with the Downs at Albuquerque Racetrack & Casino. The lease…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. Border Patrol rescued a child who injured his leg on a hunting trip in the mountains of New Mexico, the Associated Press reports. A Border Patrol crew from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Air and Marine in El Paso rushed to save the child in mountains near Deming….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A new border outpost for CBP has opened in an isolated section of southwest New Mexico to combat a rise in crimes related to drug trafficking, authorities announced Thursday, the Associated Press reports. For the first time, the mountainous region of Bootheel will be patrolled around-the-clock by CBP. The idea was to…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A DEA bust has led to the arrest of a local firefighter in Albuquerque, reports KQRE. Acquaintances of firefighter Steve Chavez said he was the last guy they’d expect to be involved in a drug ring. Chavez had been with the department for seven years, according to KQRE. The drug ring…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Two member of the Bloods street gang were sentenced in a US District Court in Santa Fe, N.M., for a hate crime against a developmentally disabled Navajo, the FBI said in a statement on Wednesday. Paul Beebe and Jesse Sanford of Farmington, N.M were convicted and sentenced on federal hate crime…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is in for some nail biting. The Albuquerque Journal reports that a fed grand jury in Albuquerque is looking into possible financial irregularities in Richardson’s failed presidential campaign. The paper reported that a number of witnesses have been granted immunity. The paper reported that the feds…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In one of the more repulsive cases of human behavior, two racist men pleaded guilty Thursday in New Mexico to defacing the body of a developmentally disabled Native American of Navajo descent. The defacing included branding the 22-year-old man with a swastika, using a heated wire hanger. Paul Beebe and Jesse…
