From the Las Vegas Optic A 26-year-old Pecos man has been arrested following accusations that he made inappropriate contact with an 8-year-old girl he was babysitting. Jacob M. Varela was booked into the San Miguel County Detention Center Tuesday morning on one count of criminal sexual contact with a minor, a second-degree felony. A warrant…
From the Idaho Business Review As the vice president and brokerage director for MassMutual of Idaho, Scott Mason is in a position to help people, both individuals and other agents. “I love training agents, and I love working with my own clients,” Mason says. “We change people’s lives, and we change families’ lives for generations.”…
From the Idaho Business Review Todd Christensen attributes his lifelong interest in finance and business to something his father said to him when he was 8 years old. “I recall, very vividly, an experience with my dad,” Christensen says. “We went to open up a banking account, and before we went in, he said, ‘Son,…
From the Idaho Business Review It’s no secret that a lot of business gets done on the golf course. For many business professionals, it’s why they take up golf in the first place. But it was the opposite for Katie Dow: she was already a golfer when she realized she wanted to go into finance.…
From the Las Vegas Optic New Mexico State Police have arrested a man for violating a restraining order for the second time in five weeks. Police first arrested Bernie Lopez, 71, of Pecos, in early September, and charged him with aggravated stalking for violating a restraining order issued in April. Last week, Lopez was arrested…
From the Las Vegas Optic An apparent case of road rage at a busy Las Vegas intersection led to an Albuquerque woman being charged with six counts of child abuse. Jennifer T. Montaño, 33, of Albuquerque, was booked into the San Miguel County Detention Center Oct. 5, charged with six felony counts of abuse of…
From the Las Vegas Optic A Pecos man fired multiple shots outside a neighbor’s home after his request to use the bathroom was denied, according to a criminal complaint filed in San Miguel Magistrate Court. Maurice L. Hilborn, 72, of Pecos, was booked into the San Miguel County Detention Center early Monday morning after being…
From the Las Vegas Optic New Mexico State Police are investigating a double shooting in Mora that left a man dead and sent another to the hospital. NMSP identified the man killed as Jermain R. Jennings of Rio Rancho, and according to a criminal complaint filed in Mora Magistrate Court, the man wounded was his…
From the Las Vegas Optic The Drug Enforcement Administration spent more than a year building a case against Robert Corbin Padilla, an Albuquerque man federal authorities have charged with trafficking drugs into Las Vegas. But according to a DEA search warrant affidavit, agents feared someone within the Las Vegas Police Department was providing information about…
From the Las Vegas Optic Agents and officers from several law enforcement agencies executed more than 20 search warrants on Sept. 19, raiding multiple homes and one business in Las Vegas. The raids were part of a federal investigation that began nearly five years ago, but recently-unsealed court documents reveal that Las Vegas wasn’t a…
