Three children who disappeared more than a year ago in New Mexico were found safe this week. The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office said they launched an investigation on June 15, 2022, after they were contacted by the Children, Youth, and Families Department for assistance. CYFD told deputies at that time that they had been contacted …
A losing candidate for a state legislative office — who insisted without evidence that fraud caused him to lose by 48 percentage points — has been arrested and charged with four shootings at the homes of New Mexico elected officials between December 4 and January 3. Solomon Pena, running as a Republican, lost his bid …
Security video on an Albuquerque city bus shows the moment passengers got an Amber Alert about a missing child and realized the 5-year-old girl was on their bus. Oreyana Clinton had been reported missing 13 hours earlier after her father, Nicholas Clinton, showed up at a shelter, drunk and without his daughter. They’d last been …
Muhammad Syed has been charged with two of the four murders.
Two women in New Mexico have been jailed after they allegedly tried to hijack a vehicle and then fired at deputies who tried to pull them over, prompting a shelter-in place order for three schools and area residents. Lizeth Iguado, 33, and Felicia Gonzales, 38, have been charged with armed robbery, attempt to commit a …
Authorities in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Saturday released more details about a deadly school middle school shooting that took place during lunch on Friday. Juan Saucedo, 13, was charged with murder and unlawfully carrying a deadly weapon on school premises in Friday’s shooting at Washington Middle School, Albuquerque Police said at a news conference. Saucedo …
A New Mexico teen charged with murdering his cousin is now facing additional charges, according to officials. The Albuquerque Journal reports that Jeremiah Morfin, now 17, is accused of murdering his 9-year-old cousin in 2019. On Wednesday, 2nd Judicial District Court Judge Daniel Gallegos approved several additional charges against Morfin, including sexual penetration of a minor …
Dakota Briscoe has been charged with shooting his friends to death and burning their bodies beyond recognition before stealing a car at gunpoint and fleeing.
Two women are on trial this week in New Mexico on allegations that they left two kids inside of a vehicle during a hot summer day in 2017. Maliyah Jones, who was just two months shy of her second birthday, was found dead on the July day. Another child, 2-year-old Aubrianna Loya, was critically injured …
Two New Mexico boys have been missing since December 16 and family members are desperate for answers after the pair reportedly got brutally beaten while being recorded. Albuquerque Metro Crime Stoppers reports that 15 year old Collin Romero and 14-year-old Ahmed Lateef, both of Albuquerque, were allegedly beaten while someone captured the incident and shared it …
Authorities in New Mexico say a custodian at the Barcelona Elementary School in Albuquerque is facing criminal charges after allegedly chasing a group of kids around campus at gunpoint. According to KRQE, Ray Lopez was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of counts including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and unlawful carrying of a weapon …
An unsolved serial killing in New Mexico may have had more victims than previously thought, CBS News reports. Police in Albuquerque are investigating the discovery of bones found in the same area where the bodies of nearly a dozen women were buried roughly a decade ago. A construction crew came across the bones on Tuesday, about …
