Federal prosecutors say the city's police department was the main focus of a 15-year bribery scheme that also involved the sheriff's office and the state police.
"We wouldn't go and put something in, especially an affidavit, if we didn't think that there was going to be more to it," Special Agent in Charge Raul Bujanda said.
It’s been a year since the public learned of the massive corruption scandal involving a scheme to make DWI cases disappear. Federal documents last week, shed more light on the conspiracy involving police officers and attorneys that dates back more than two decades.
APD Chief Harold Medina is warning folks of criminals stealing from cars. The recent violent case happened Sunday at Walgreens.
KRQE News 13 has learned one of the officers who resigned last year connected to the federal investigation into the DWI Unit scandal now works for the New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department.
For the past 15 years, at least two lawyers and officers from the Albuquerque Police Department, New Mexico State Police and the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office ran a racketeering enterprise
Local law enforcement officers wear the badge, knowing the risks that come with it. But Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina said now more than ever people are going to extreme lengths to avoid arrest.
The retirement comes the same day as an interview was scheduled with the Internal Affairs Task Force, according to police.
An Albuquerque police lieutenant placed on leave in a sprawling DWI corruption probe decided to retire before meeting with detectives on the matter. Gilbert Gallegos, an Albuquerque Police Department spokesman,
According to federal documents, officers and deputies at the Albuquerque Police Department, Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office, and New Mexico State Police worked with an attorney and his ...
A private investigator was the first to plead guilty to a host of federal charges that include racketeering and bribery in a corruption scandal that roiled New Mexico’s law enforcement community for over a decade,
TONIGHT, A MAN PLEADS GUILTY IN THE D-W-I SCANDAL INVOLVING ALBUQUERQUE POLICE OFFICERS ... S DEPUTIES AND THE BERNALILLO COUNTY AND NEW MEXICO STATE POLICE OFFICERS WERE STILL INVOLVED, TAKING ...