From the Las Vegas Optic A high-speed car chase through the streets of west Las Vegas culminated in a 15-year-old boy being airlifted to Albuquerque with a gunshot wound to the head, and a Las Vegas man facing multiple felony charges. Leopoldo J. Jaramillo III, 30, was booked into the San Miguel County Detention Center…
From the Las Vegas Optic Just days before Christmas, Las Vegas Police responded to a domestic disturbance call that resulted in a Las Vegas man being charged with child abuse. Brian E. Mondragon, 44, was booked into the San Miguel County Detention Center on Dec. 22, charged with felony abuse of a child and misdemeanor…
From the Las Vegas Optic When thinking about hip-hop music, most people don’t think of Las Vegas, New Mexico. Local rapper Yung Tat the Prince would like to change that. Born in San Antonio, Texas, the 29-year-old rapper, whose given name is Jonas Romero, was raised in Las Vegas by his father, Juan “Johnny B-Like”…
From the Las Vegas Optic Hours after appearing in court to have an ankle monitor removed, a Las Vegas man was arrested for felony aggravated fleeing of law enforcement following a high-speed chase. According to Las Vegas Police, around 8 a.m. Dec. 12, an officer’s radar recorded 24-year-old Jeffrey C. Fernandez driving 98 mph on…
From the Las Vegas Optic North of Ribera, just off an I-25 frontage road, lies County Road B55 — a narrow dirt road that provides access to a handful of properties in rural San Miguel County. The road also connects to the Santa Fe National Forest. At least it used to. Now a locked gate…
From the Las Vegas Optic Las Vegas Police responded to a business in the 100 block of Bridge Street with guns drawn after receiving a call about a man pointing a handgun at people. LVPD officers confronted 32-year-old Alfonso H. Garduño on Dec. 3 around 3:30 p.m. in the breezeway of a building on Bridge…
From the Las Vegas Optic A Las Vegas man was charged with two felonies and multiple misdemeanors after threatening to kill himself and his family. Joseph L. Garcia, 58, was charged with two felony counts of false imprisonment, two misdemeanor counts of assault against a household member and misdemeanor aggravated battery against a household member.…
From the Las Vegas Optic The man accused of shooting and killing a Rociada man will remain in jail as he awaits trial. William Daniels, 60, was charged in the slaying of 46-year-old Roman Latimer Lucero after the two men got into an argument along New Mexico Highway 276 in Rociada on Oct. 27. In…
Originally published in Tradiciones, a special publication of the Las Vegas Optic.
From the Idaho Business Review Growing up, Franklin G. Lee wanted to be an architect. He followed that dream, earned degrees in architecture, and began working in the field. When some of his clients got into legal trouble, Lee was tasked with assisting his client’s lawyers, and that’s when he became interested in practicing law.…
