WELL DONE! Today our SAKI Team (Sexual Assault Kit Initiative Unit) also known as our Cold Case Rape Team received the Justice System Impact Award for all their amazing work! Today they were honored at the New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs Inc. In just two years, our SAKI Team has convicted 23 people of cold case rapes. No matter how old or cold these cases are, the victims are not forg... See MoreSee Less
JURY CONVICTS MAN OF KIDNAPPING, AND SEXUALLY ASSAULTING A WOMAN IN COLD CASE RAPE Today, a jury convicted Erik Thomas Lea of First-Degree Kidnapping and 2 Counts of Criminal Sexual Penetration. BACKGROUND: June 2006, Lea kidnapped a woman in the parking lot outside an Albuquerque business on Menaul and Wyoming. He forced her into her car, then forced her to drive to a secluded area where he raped... See MoreSee Less
OPERATION ROUTE 66 -- FOUR AGENCIES COLLABORATE TO FIGHT CRIME IN SE ABQ -- BCSO, NMSP, BERNCO DISTRICT ATTORNEY AGENTS, NM CORRECTIONS PROBATION & PAROLE. CHECK OUT WHAT THEY'VE DONE IN THREE MONTHS!
ARRESTS -- 699 WARRANTS — 505 OF THOSE ARRESTED HAD WARRANTS 7 HOMICIDE SUSPECTS ARRESTED 52 ILLEGALLY POSSESSED OR STOLEN FIREARMS RECOVERED 61 STOLEN VEHICLES RECOVERED MORE THAN 35,000 FENTANYL... See MoreSee Less
JURY CONVICTS MAN OF SEXUALLY ASSAULTING 15-YEAR-OLD BOY -- Late this afternoon, a jury convicted Dominic Martinez of Criminal Sexual Contact of a Minor and Criminal Sexual Penetration of a Minor. This case involves the sexual abuse of a 15-year-old boy at Martinez's home. DNA linked him to the crimes. ... See MoreSee Less
JURY CONVICTS MAN OF STREET RACING MORE THAN 100 MPH, KILLING TWO PEOPLE -- Today a jury convicted Andy Doreste-Saumell of multiple crimes, including 2 counts of Vehicular Homicide, Reckless Driving, Child Abuse, and Great Bodily Injury by Vehicle.
BACKGROUND: OCTOBER 8, 2023, Doreste-Saumell was racing with another car on Louisiana near Dellwood NE, when the other racer crashed into a third vehi... See MoreSee Less
MAN CHARGED WITH HITTING CHILD OVER THE HEAD WITH A BOTTLE, THEN SLICING HER NECK, HAS BEEN INDICTED. This week, a grand jury indicted Nichalas San Souci with Abuse of a Child Resulting in Great Bodily Harm, Aggravated Battery/Deadly Weapon, and Aggravated Assault/Deadly Weapon.
BACKGROUND: Investigators say April 25, 2025, an 8-year-old little girl was looking at a waterfall inside an Albuquerque... See MoreSee Less
WOMAN WHO DROVE DRUNK CAUSING A DEADLY HEAD-ON CRASH -- SENTENCED Adamaris Martinez was sentenced to 13 years in the New Mexico Corrections Department for drinking, driving, and killing Jade Lucero and seriously injuring Jade's fiancée, Colter Anderson. The judge gave Martinez the maximum punishment allowed under New Mexico Law.
BACKGROUND: January 21, 2024, Jade Lucero and her fiancée were drivin... See MoreSee Less
WELL DONE!
Today our SAKI Team (Sexual Assault Kit Initiative Unit) also known as our Cold Case Rape Team received the Justice System Impact Award for all their amazing work! Today they were honored at the New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs Inc.
In just two years, our SAKI Team has convicted 23 people of cold case rapes.
No matter how old or cold these cases are, the victims are not forg ... See MoreSee Less
WE ARE NOT DONE --
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699 arrests made in Operation Route 66 but work isn't done yet
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More than 35,000 fentanyl pills are taken off the streets as more than 500 suspects were arrested on active warrants.JURY CONVICTS MAN OF KIDNAPPING, AND SEXUALLY ASSAULTING A WOMAN IN COLD CASE RAPE
Today, a jury convicted Erik Thomas Lea of First-Degree Kidnapping and 2 Counts of Criminal Sexual Penetration.
BACKGROUND:
June 2006, Lea kidnapped a woman in the parking lot outside an Albuquerque business on Menaul and Wyoming. He forced her into her car, then forced her to drive to a secluded area where he raped ... See MoreSee Less
OPERATION ROUTE 66 -- FOUR AGENCIES COLLABORATE TO FIGHT CRIME IN SE ABQ --
BCSO, NMSP, BERNCO DISTRICT ATTORNEY AGENTS, NM CORRECTIONS PROBATION & PAROLE.
CHECK OUT WHAT THEY'VE DONE IN THREE MONTHS!
ARRESTS -- 699
WARRANTS — 505 OF THOSE ARRESTED HAD WARRANTS
7 HOMICIDE SUSPECTS ARRESTED
52 ILLEGALLY POSSESSED OR STOLEN FIREARMS RECOVERED
61 STOLEN VEHICLES RECOVERED
MORE THAN 35,000 FENTANYL ... See MoreSee Less
Is Crime Down in the War Zone? ... See MoreSee Less
JURY CONVICTS MAN OF SEXUALLY ASSAULTING 15-YEAR-OLD BOY --
Late this afternoon, a jury convicted Dominic Martinez of Criminal Sexual Contact of a Minor and Criminal Sexual Penetration of a Minor.
This case involves the sexual abuse of a 15-year-old boy at Martinez's home. DNA linked him to the crimes. ... See MoreSee Less
JURY CONVICTS MAN OF STREET RACING MORE THAN 100 MPH, KILLING TWO PEOPLE --
Today a jury convicted Andy Doreste-Saumell of multiple crimes, including 2 counts of Vehicular Homicide, Reckless Driving, Child Abuse, and Great Bodily Injury by Vehicle.
BACKGROUND:
OCTOBER 8, 2023, Doreste-Saumell was racing with another car on Louisiana near Dellwood NE, when the other racer crashed into a third vehi ... See MoreSee Less
MAN CHARGED WITH HITTING CHILD OVER THE HEAD WITH A BOTTLE, THEN SLICING HER NECK, HAS BEEN INDICTED.
This week, a grand jury indicted Nichalas San Souci with Abuse of a Child Resulting in Great Bodily Harm, Aggravated Battery/Deadly Weapon, and
Aggravated Assault/Deadly Weapon.
BACKGROUND:
Investigators say April 25, 2025, an 8-year-old little girl was looking at a waterfall inside an Albuquerque ... See MoreSee Less
WOMAN WHO DROVE DRUNK CAUSING A DEADLY HEAD-ON CRASH -- SENTENCED
Adamaris Martinez was sentenced to 13 years in the New Mexico Corrections Department for drinking, driving, and killing Jade Lucero and seriously injuring Jade's fiancée, Colter Anderson.
The judge gave Martinez the maximum punishment allowed under New Mexico Law.
BACKGROUND:
January 21, 2024, Jade Lucero and her fiancée were drivin ... See MoreSee Less