From the Las Vegas Optic A car horn disrupted the quiet July evening. Then came the gunshots. Three bullets that killed Leroy “Smurf” Lucero, leaving his wife without a husband, and his four children without their father. His violent death also shifted the focus of a nearly five-year-long FBI investigation to Las Vegas. That federal…
From the Las Vegas Optic The Las Vegas Lodgers Tax Advisory Board rescheduled this week’s special meeting because it failed to post the agenda to its website 72 hours prior to the meeting, as required by law. The cancellation comes just weeks after the Office of the Attorney General ruled the board violated the state’s…
From the Las Vegas Optic Las Vegas City Schools illegally withheld documents and charged unlawful fees for access to public records, according to a determination letter issued Jan. 27 by the New Mexico Office of the Attorney General. The OAG’s determination was issued in response to multiple violations of New Mexico’s Inspection of Public Records…
From the Las Vegas Optic Police are searching for a Las Vegas woman who’s been missing for more than a week. Shana Storey was reported missing by a friend Jan. 18, soon after Storey was released from the San Miguel County Detention Center where she’d been booked on a warrant for failing to appear in…
From the Las Vegas Optic A Mora County woman allegedly punished a 6-year-old child routinely by punching him in the stomach, applying force to pressure points and forcing him to run laps and stay in stress positions, according to court documents. Taylor M. Ealey, 28, of Chacon, was arrested Jan. 15 and charged with felony…
From the Las Vegas Optic She was near the front door when the shot was fired. A single bullet pierced the man’s rib cage, just below his right armpit. “They got me,” 27-year-old Cruz Gallegos said as he stumbled past her, through the front door and into the darkness of the early June morning, hours…
From the Las Vegas Optic A disagreement over tools and methamphetamine ended with one man being treated for a gunshot wound and another man facing criminal charges. Kelvin L. Jeffrey, 27, was arrested Jan. 8 and charged with felony aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, as well as misdemeanor negligent use of a deadly weapon.…
From the Las Vegas Optic The City of Las Vegas and the Las Vegas Police Department violated state law, according to determinations issued last week by the Office of the Attorney General. In a series of determination letters sent to city officials, the OAG concluded that the City of Las Vegas violated portions of both…
From the Las Vegas Optic Police in Mora caught up with a wanted man late last month, 18 days after a warrant for his arrest was issued. Amadeo “Fred” Pino, 52, of Buena Vista, was booked into the San Miguel County Detention Center Dec. 23, 2019 on multiple felony charges, including burglary, assault with a…
From the Las Vegas Optic An Albuquerque man is facing multiple felony charges following a 15-mile police chase that began near Ilfeld and ended with a crash in Chapelle. Pasqual R. Valenzuela Jr., 22, appeared in San Miguel Magistrate Court Dec. 27 to face several charges, including auto theft, fleeing law enforcement and possession of…
