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Family, friends and supporters packed Rio Arriba County Magistrate Court Judge Alexandra Naranjo’s courtroom on March 21, but it wasn’t for a hearing or a trial. Instead, they were there

BY MAIRE O'NEILLmaire@losalamosreporter.com Tuesday, May 9 is National Fentanyl Awareness Day Facing the sad reality that Fentanyl, the single deadliest drug threat the nation has ever encountered, is in our community entities have been spreading the word on the extreme dangers of the drug to prevent the overdoses that are claiming lives every day throughout…

Those who find themselves in front of Magistrate Court Judge Alexandra Naranjo pleading a DWI case will find an alternative sentence May 1 when Naranjo’s drug court division opens.

    In order to reduce the jail population in the Rio Arriba County Adult Detention Center, the County has been sending more people home with ankle monitoring bracelets.     Jails have become hotbeds for the Coronavirus during the pandemic. The Council on Criminal Justice, in its December report found that 12 percent of persons in a prison had recovered from or were experiencing COVID-19. The non-prison population has experienced COVID-19 at roughly 3 percent. The Council also found the death rate from COVID-19 for inmates was almost double the national average.    �...