Carlsbad man gets prison time for lying to police
A Carlsbad man accused of lying to police and reaching for a gun during a 2018 traffic stop was sentenced to time in prison, according to Fifth Judicial District court records.
Truitt McDonald, 52, was sentenced to four years in state custody and three years parole Feb. 5 by Fifth Judicial District Judge Jane Shuler-Gray, court records indicated.
McDonald pleaded no contest to aggravated assault with intent to commit a felony. Gray found him guilty and sentenced McDonald to 18 months with 181 days of pre-sentence confinement credit for one year in prison, followed by one-year parole, per court records.
Police offered very little information on both shootings as the investigations are still underway.
Officers were dispatched around 10:11 p.m. on Feb. 19 to Kiwanis Park at 3540 E. 30th Street to investigate a reported shooting.
A man had called 911 and told a dispatcher that that he had been shot near the park, according to Farmington Police Department spokesperson Nicole Brown.
He was found by officers west of the park and they rendered aid until paramedics arrived on scene. He had five gunshot wounds.
The man was initially transported to San Juan Regional Medical Center, then to the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque.
DENVER A Pueblo man with multiple convictions for guns and drugs, and who struggles with substance abuse, has been sentenced to three years for another gun crime.
Julian Daniel Trujillo was sentenced Wednesday in Denver by Judge Raymond Moore of the U.S. District Court for Colorado.
Earlier, Trujillo pleaded guilty to having a gun despite a previous felony conviction. He needs to stay away from Pueblo (when he is released), said Jennifer Beck, a public defender representing Trujillo. He s locked in a cycle that s hard to break. (Returning) is not going to help him on a path of recovery.
It’s been just shy of eight years since pregnant, 21-year-old Kelsie Schelling disappeared in Pueblo after driving from her home in Denver to visit her boyfriend and purported father of her unborn child, Donthe Lucas.
Members of Schelling’s family made a similar drive down Interstate 25 to see Lucas Wednesday as he stood trial for Schelling’s murder.
Schelling’s mother, Laura Saxton, has awaited this day for years she’s long alleged that Lucas was either involved in or responsible for her daughter’s disappearance. She and Schelling’s father, Doug Schelling, even filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Lucas and members of his family in 2016 that was later dismissed.