Public Safety

SFNF: Prescribed Burn In Pacheco Canyon Underway

Prescribed burn underway today in Pacheco Canyon. File photo

SFNF News:

SANTA FE – Favorable conditions today allowed fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest to proceed with the previously announced Pacheco Canyon prescribed pile burn on the Española Ranger District.

The 106-acre pile burn is part of the larger Pacheco Canyon Forest Resiliency Project, a 2,042-acre forest restoration project that was instrumental in keeping the lightning-caused Medio Fire from crossing Forest Road (FR) 102 and threatening significant values at risk, including the Santa Fe ski basin and municipal Read More

U.S., Canada Complete Nuclear Material Shipping Campaign

Acting NNSA Administrator Dr. William Bookless. Screenshot/LADP

Atomic Energy of Canada Limited President and CEO Richard Sexton. Screenshot/LADP

NNSA News:

  • Material had been used to create life-saving medicines

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) and Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) announced the completion of a multi-year campaign to repatriate 161 kilograms of highly enriched uranium (HEU) liquid target residue material from Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario, Canada, to the Savannah River Site in Aiken, Read More

New Mexico Supreme Court Overturns Convictions In Fatal Child Abuse Case

NMSC News:

SANTA FE — The New Mexico Supreme Court Thursday reversed an Albuquerque man’s convictions of child abuse and conspiracy to commit child abuse in the death of a 14-month-old boy in 2015.

A divided Court ruled there was insufficient evidence to support Christopher Garcia’s convictions of intentional child abuse resulting in death by endangerment through medical neglect. The Court unanimously overturned Garcia’s conspiracy conviction. Garcia was sentenced to life in prison plus an additional four years. 

The Court’s majority dismissed both charges because double jeopardy protections Read More

Balderas Secures Conviction Of Former Personal Care Organization Owner Who Defrauded Medicaid Program

Attorney General Hector Balderas

AG News:

SANTA FE — Attorney General Hector Balderas announced that his office has secured a guilty plea from Lolita Begay-Yazzie to one count of Fraud in excess of $20,000, a second degree felony, and one count of Failure to Retain Documents, a fourth degree felony for defrauding New Mexico’s Medicaid program of more than $400,000.

Begay-Yazzie owned and operated a personal care agency in Gallup.

“Medicaid ensures that almost half of all New Mexicans have access to healthcare, and we must do all we can to protect these resources that are so vital to our families,” Read More

Missing Endangered 7 Year Old Last Seen In White Rock

UPDATE: CANCEL Missing Endangered Juvenile Advisory – Angelique Romero and Lorenza Romero. Angelique Romero has been located and is safe.

NMSP News:

Española – The following is information for the distribution of a Missing Endangered Juvenile Advisory from the New Mexico State Police (NMSP).

NMSP is seeking the public’s assistance in locating Angelique Romero and her biological mother Lorenza Romero.

Angelique and Lorenza were last seen around 8:30 a.m. Jan. 11, 2021 at 140 Long View Dr. in White Rock.

Angelique is a 7-year-old Hispanic female, 4’5” tall, weighing 60 pounds, with Read More

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