Former MDC Sgt. Eric Allen. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Journal) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Eric Allen, a sergeant who was fired from the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center, charged with beating an inmate, and whose conduct resulted in the settlement of three lawsuits, was found dead along with his wife by the side of a highway in southwest Colorado late last month. Montezuma County Sheriff Steven Nowlin said that on June 30 deputies were called to the side of the well-traveled U.S. 160, near the county line, for reports of a blue Ford Expedition that had been sitting there for several days. When they arrived they found Eric Allen and his wife, Yong Allen, both 56, dead.