By Roger Lanse

Protect America, a national home security company, in its annual program, which lists the Top 10 Burglary Safe Zones in each state, has ranked Hurley as eighth in New Mexico.

Zane Scharwzlose, community liaison for the company, said that each year the FBI releases their Uniform Crime Report detailing the number of crimes in each municipality in the U.S. The 2016 report was released Sept. 28, he stated, and Protect America determined the burglary safe zones based on that data.

Hurley Police Chief Michael Zamora hadnG