AG Balderas Announces Detention And Charging Of Man Who Allegedly Molested Multiple Family Members
From the Office of the Attorney General:
ALBUQUERQUE Attorney General Hector Balderas announced Friday that alleged serial child molester James Henz was bound over for trial in district court on numerous counts of sexual assault and other crimes against five young victims.
If convicted on all counts, Henz will likely spend the rest of his life incarcerated. The district court also granted the Office of the Attorney General’s motion to hold Henz without bond before trial on the grounds that he is a danger to the community.
COVID-19 by the numbers New Mexico health officials yesterday reported 997 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the statewide total so far to 166,823. Of those, the health department has designated 91,096 as recovered. Bernalillo County led with 232 new cases, followed by Doña Ana County with 125 and McKinley County with 92. Santa Fe County had 39 new cases. Case rates this week have tracked with forecasts from the weekly modeling report s middle case scenario, although daily numbers have steadily increased this week from a low of 628 on Monday. The state also announced 35 additional deaths, including five more Santa Fe County residents: a woman in her 50s who was hospitalized; a woman in her 60s who had underlying conditions; a woman in her 80s who was hospitalized; a man in his 80s who had underlying conditions; and a man in his 90s who was a resident at Pacifica Senior Living facility in Santa Fe. There have now been 3,044 deaths statewide. As of yesterday, 644 people were hospita
Abran Ulibarri A former West Las Vegas Middle School security guard has been arrested and charged with 15 felony counts following a lengthy investigation by the New Mexico Office of the Attorney General. Abran Paul Ulibarri, 52, was arrested Thursday and booked into the San Miguel County Detention Center. He is accused of forcefully performing sexual acts on a 14-year-old girl who was a student at West Las Vegas Middle School when Ulibarri was a security guard for the school. Ulibarri no longer works for the district, Superintendent Chris Gutierrez confirmed to the Optic Thursday. Ulibarri has been charged with three counts second-degree criminal sexual penetration of a child using force or coercion, four counts second-degree criminal sexual contact with a minor by a person in a position of authority, six counts false imprisonment, bribery of a witness and criminal solicitation to commit tampering with evidence.
In a court filing on Tuesday, the federal government argued that Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin should remain in custody because of the danger he poses to the public, and “a disdain for legal authority.” Griffin is the leader of the political group Cowboys for Trump, a pro-Donald Trump group that has led protests in […]