From the Las Vegas Optic A 17-year-old West Las Vegas football player was shot and killed during a New Year’s Eve party. One of his teammates is in custody, charged with murder. The shooting was reported Friday night at a home near County Road B41E and NM 3 in Ribera. New Mexico State Police arrived…
From the Las Vegas Optic A Pecos man is accused of stealing guns and several other items from a guard shack at the New Mexico National Guard’s headquarters near Santa Fe. Investigators believe the same man sold one of the guns to a man in Rowe. An arrest warrant was issued Tuesday for 31-year-old Jacob…
From the Las Vegas Optic Editor’s note: The following is part of an ongoing series on the roots of addiction in San Miguel and Mora counties, and the solutions being pursued by local leaders in an effort to help those suffering from addiction. Officials in Las Vegas and San Miguel County are moving forward with…
From the Las Vegas Optic A woman charged with trafficking heroin and methamphetamine was sentenced to probation earlier this month. Jocelyn A. Lovato, 30, of Las Vegas, was charged with six felony charges in April 2019 after she sold narcotics to an undercover officer with the Region IV Drug Task Force. Lovato accepted a plea…
From the Idaho Business Review Newly-acquired (by Ericsson) telecom equipment company makes a big splash in 2021 Boise-based Cradlepoint, which was acquired by Swedish telecommunications giant Ericsson late last year in a cash deal worth about $1.1 billion, has been busy expanding Ericsson’s reach into the rapidly expanding 5G market. The deal made Cradlepoint a…
From the Idaho Business Review Vacation rental management company partners with TPG Pace Solutions (in SPAC deal), Marriott and Meyer Vacation Rentals Vacasa LLC, a vacation rental management company headquartered in Boise and Portland, produces technology intended to help property owners rent and maintain vacation homes. The business helps showcase owners’ properties through some 100…
From the Las Vegas Optic One of the seven men facing a charge of first-degree murder in the beating death of a jail inmate has been charged with stashing deadly weapons in his cell, and attempting to escape from custody. Corrections officers were transporting Conrad J. Atencio, 25, to the San Miguel County Detention Center…
From the Las Vegas Optic A former Las Vegas Police Department officer is facing a federal assault charge for punching a United States Postal Service mail carrier earlier this month. Robert F. Gutierrez, of Las Vegas, is charged with one count of assault on a federal officer resulting in bodily injury following a Dec. 3…
From the Las Vegas Optic A man and a woman were shot to death at close range Saturday night inside a Pecos home. One man is in custody. Mark R. Valencia, 40, of Pecos, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of 40-year-old Steven Singer and 48-year-old Eva Aragon, both…
From the Las Vegas Optic A Las Vegas woman and her grandfather were shot and killed in November 2020 as portions of the double homicide were streamed live on Facebook. Last month, a wrongful death lawsuit was filed in District Court in Las Vegas. The suit was filed Nov. 8, 2021 — on the one-year anniversary…
