Minor in Possession at Lobo Village
UNMPD received a call Jan. 7 about a violent resident at Lobo Village. When officers arrived at the resident’s room, they found him intoxicated, with dried blood around his nose and yelling at his roommates for not helping him when three people attacked him earlier in the evening, according to a police report. The roommates said they locked themselves in their rooms and called the police when the resident became violent, police said. The resident later admitted his roommates were not with him when he was attacked. Police gave him a Minor in Possession citation.

Cops: Woman sneaks drugs into hospital
UNMPD officers were dispatched to UNM Hospital on Jan. 10 after a patient’s girlfriend smuggled narcotics into the hospital for him, a police report said. Hospital staff told police they overheard the patient making a phone call in which he requested the person on the other line “bring him a fix.” Before hospital security could arrive at the patient’s room, a woman who identified herself at the patient’s girlfriend entered the patient’s room with a black jacket, police said. Hospital staff told police the girlfriend left without the jacket. When police confronted the patient he admitted that there were narcotics in the pocket of the jacket. Police confiscated heroin, a syringe and a spoon from the jacket’s pockets, police said.

Battery at Lobo Village
A UNMPD officer arrived at Lobo Village Jan. 7 in response to an alleged battery, police reports said. A Lobo Village resident called UNMPD when her roommates, who she said had been partying and were intoxicated, began to send her threatening text messages. The resident said one of her roommates started pushing her and followed her out of the complex when she ran away, the report said. Police were unable to find the resident’s roommate.

Cops: child found covered in feces
ALBUQUERQUE — An Albuquerque woman has been held on $250,000 cash bail on child abuse charges after police found her infant son in a home covered with animal feces and urine.

The Albuquerque Journal reports that 27-year-old Betty Newman was arrested Friday following an anonymous call that led Bernalillo County Sheriff’s deputies to the home in Albuquerque’s South Valley. Her mother, Cathi Newman, was also arrested for child abuse.

According to the Sheriff’s Office, deputies were overwhelmed by the smell of methane and ammonia coming from a buildup of animal feces and urine inside the home.

County firefighters said they found the gas levels inside the home to be toxic to human beings.

The three-month-old infant is now in state custody.
It was unclear if either woman had attorneys.

Fatal accident at Taos Ski Valley
TAOS — A male skier has been killed in an accident at Taos Ski Valley. A spokesman for the ski area says the man died Tuesday afternoon. KOB-TV reports the ski patrol responded to the scene and took the skier to a medical clinic, where he was pronounced dead.

A Ski Valley representative says the accident did not involve anyone else.

The man’s body will be taken to the Office of the Medical Examiner for autopsy.

*Inmate injured jail guard, police say *
DEMING, N.M. — A Luna County Detention Center officer is recovering after he was attacked by an inmate. Authorities tell the Deming Headlight that 22-year-old inmate Dakota Choate now faces felony charges of aggravated intent to commit a violent felony upon a peace officer, aggravated battery on a peace officer and assault by a prisoner. He was originally jailed on charges related to larceny.

The Luna County sheriff’s office said the attack happened Monday night when the guard was blindsided with a punch to the face, which caused him to fall over, apparently after blacking out. The officer was injured in his face and neck area and was reported to have a broken eye socket.

After receiving treatment in Deming, the officer was transported to a hospital in El Paso.