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The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office says deputies seized these drugs during a bust Thursday evening at a hotel near the Albuquerque airport. (Source: BCSO)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Bernalillo County deputies worked with FBI agents to arrest an Arizona man Thursday evening and seize thousands of fentanyl pills, pounds of meth and ounces of heroin at a motel near the Albuquerque Sunport.
Terry Ingram, 54, is charged with three counts of trafficking controlled substances and one count of distribution of a controlled substance. Prosecutors have filed a motion to detain Ingram, calling him a “flight risk” with no community ties.
Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Joseph Montiel said Ingram is on parole after serving 15 years in an Arizona prison on prior drug-related charges.
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A decades-long backlog of untested rape kits in the Albuquerque area is no more. Finally, a bit of justice for some – and a system in place to ensure this never happens again. And that’s important because many of the cases involving the kits that languished for years will never see justice (the statute of limitations has expired, victims died or decided to not proceed with charges, no suspect was identified, etc.)
The backlog came to light around four years ago, when Mayor Tim Keller was state auditor. After learning of the backlog, his team dug in and issued a report on the 5,400 or so untested rape kits across the state – 75% from Albuquerque. Then-Mayor Richard Berry got two grants to start testing the kits and now, under Keller, the backlog is gone.
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Elaine Maestas remembers her sister, Elisha Lucero, going out of her way to help people.
“Even if it was like the last of her money, the last 20 dollars, and she knew you needed gas to get to work, didn t matter if you were a friend, a family member or somebody that she just met, she would help you out,” Maestas said.
Lucero was a pillar for her family. She was a loving aunt to Maestas’s children and a caregiver for her father when he became ill. But after she got in a car accident, Maestas said, “we really noticed a drastic, drastic change – that she was starting to not really be herself.”
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Members of an Albuquerque Police Department SWAT team respond to a shooting near Bianchetti Park in October of 2019. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal)
RE: (April 27 article:) “APD union launches campaign against ‘endless DOJ oversight ”
… Let’s talk about “crime matters more.”
The DOJ oversight would not be endless if the DOJ recommendations were fulfilled. That would end the expenditure of monitoring APD, and the cost would not be endless.
Spending $70K on a campaign to question “how hard it is just to succeed” is how former APD officer, now police union president, Sean Willoughby is looking for support. His argument, that officers are removed from duty by a “bureaucracy” “because somebody that was not used force on said, ‘ow’ ” is a despicable slight against Albuquerque residents who have registered legitimate use-of-force complaints against APD offi