APD arrest student for alleged gun-wielding
Authorities say a 15-year-old boy has been arrested for allegedly bringing a BB gun onto an elementary school campus in Albuquerque.
Authorities say five schools were briefly locked down around noon Tuesday after reports that someone possibly armed with a gun was seen near Dennis Chavez Elementary.
Four other nearby schools — La Cueva High School, Northstar Elementary, E.G. Ross Elementary and Desert Ridge Middle School — all were placed on lockdown while police searched for a suspect.
Officers later apprehended Jason Gray, 15. They say he’s believed to be a student at La Cueva High and wasn’t in class because he was suspended.
KOB-TV says the teen will be booked into the juvenile detention center on suspicion of bringing a firearm onto school grounds.
Court sentences man for semen-lacing
A grocery store worker accused of handing out a semen-tainted yogurt sample has been sentenced to two years in prison.
Anthony Garcia pleaded guilty in the case in October, admitting he contaminated a sample of the yogurt he was handing out at an Albuquerque Sunflower Market in January 2011. He was sentenced Thursday.
Garcia also admitted putting some of his semen on a plastic spoon that he placed with the yogurt. The 32-year-old then approached a female customer and offered her a sample.
The woman told police that after tasting the sample, she spit on the floor several times and wiped her mouth on the garment she was wearing to get the taste out of her mouth.
Federal prosecutors called the allegations “sickening and appalling.”
Garcia had faced up to three years in prison.
Curry County officials say they have settled a lawsuit with a Clovis man for his alleged mistreatment while housed at a juvenile detention facility.
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Prisoner settles mistreatment suit
The Clovis News Journal reports that Curry County Commission Chairman Wendell Bostwick confirmed the settlement Thursday with 22-year-old Orlando Salas.
Bostwick says the county’s insurance carrier, through the New Mexico Association of Counties, recommended the settlement after investigating Salas’ claims and finding some degree of liability.
According to a report on KOB-TV, Salas was 15 when he was being held in the juvenile facility under conspiracy charges linked to the killing of a 10-year-old boy in 2005.
Salas alleges he was tied to a chair while other inmates urinated on him from a hole in the ceiling above him.
Salas says he lost 100 pounds from lack of food during his stay at the juvenile jail.
Woman pleads not guilty to drug charge
A Carlsbad mother has been arrested on suspicion of smoking marijuana with her 13-year-old daughter and the girl’s 12-year-old friend.
Carlsbad police say 27-year-old Kathy Saenz pleaded not guilty in magistrate court to possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and two counts of distributing marijuana to a minor stemming from an incident on Feb. 3.
Pecos Valley Drug Task Force agent David Whitzel says agents were dispatched to a local middle school in reference to the two children smoking marijuana off school grounds.
School authorities told police they found a piece of notebook paper where the girls wrote about smoking the substance, one fearing she would get caught.
The Carlsbad Current-Argus reports Saenz is being held in the Eddy County Detention Center on a $25,000 cash-only bond awaiting a March 13 pretrial conference in Carlsbad Magistrate Court.
Cops use lunch break to issue 64 citations
Las Cruces police issued 64 traffic citations in two hours during a traffic enforcement operation. The police department says it ran the lunchtime operation Tuesday. Officers issued 33 citations to drivers talking on their cellphones and another 10 tickets were given to drivers who failed to buckle up.
The Las Cruces Sun-News reports officers also arrested a 22-year-old man after he was found to be in possession of marijuana and methamphetamine.
