From the Las Vegas Optic A convicted felon fired at least five shots at a car in the parking lot of a gas station near Romeroville, according to court records. Juan D. Rubio, 40, of Tucumcari, was arrested Sept. 8. He faces several felony charges, including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and being a…
From the Las Vegas Optic The flip of a coin led to a Las Vegas man being shot in the groin, and now police are looking for the alleged shooter, according to court records. An arrest warrant was issued Aug. 23 for Michael Gallegos, 33, of Las Vegas, following a shooting at a home in…
From the Las Vegas Optic A Las Vegas man has been charged with first-degree murder after a man’s body was found in an alleyway Friday afternoon. Las Vegas police located the body of 37-year-old Colin Gonzalez in an alleyway between Grand Avenue and Railroad Avenue after responding to a call of shots being fired in…
From the Las Vegas Optic Fifteen weeks after Shana Storey was reported missing, city code enforcement officers discovered her badly-decomposed body under the floor of a home on Romero Street. The discovery wasn’t a complete shock, however, especially not to Storey’s family who’d been told by several people that her body was in the house,…
From the Las Vegas Optic He was more than an average resident. Skip was a part of Las Vegas — an intrinsic fixture seemingly plucked from the pages of a novel about a quaint small town in northern New Mexico. Visitors and locals alike could see him all over town, and he’d usually offer a…
From the Las Vegas Optic A gunshot meant for a stray dog instead struck and killed a Mora County man, according to New Mexico State Police. State Police investigators responded to a property on State Road 94 near Ledoux around 8 a.m. on Aug. 8. They’d been called to the rural property to investigate the…
From the Las Vegas Optic West Las Vegas Schools will soon hire two new “co-teachers” for its federally-funded school readiness program Head Start. The Board of Education unanimously approved the hirings during its regular meeting last Thursday. Head Start program managers are also working to train current teachers on the use of Google Meet, a…
From the Las Vegas Optic She called to let him know she was outside with the package. The meeting had been arranged earlier in the day, and now 21-year-old Skye A. Sedillo sat in a car on a road near the San Miguel County Detention Center, waiting for a corrections officer to come retrieve the…
From the Las Vegas Optic Las Vegas City Schools has again violated the state’s public records law, according to the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government, a nonprofit dedicated to government transparency. The district was chided by the New Mexico Office of the Attorney General in late January for charging illegal fees for access to…
From the Las Vegas Optic The two men accused of killing 16-year-old Adelina Tafoya and injuring two other teens in a July shooting will remain in custody at the San Miguel County Detention Center until trial. Nico L. Barela, 30, was arrested July 24. Roger A. Tait-Gomez, 29, was arrested in the early-morning hours of…
