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New report on decline of oil and gas industry should get lawmakers' attention

October 21, 2020 Editorial
by James Jimenez, New Mexico Voices for Childrenand Oriana Sandoval, Center for Civic Policy From the super-computing work at our national labs to the out-of-this-world flights from our spaceport, evidence is abundant that New Mexico can meet current and future challenges with transformative solutions. Our legislators need to tap into our state's well of ingenuity and knowledge and figure out how…
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By Roger Lanse

According to a Silver City Police Department report, officers were dispatched to the intersection of 12th and Pope streets Sunday, Oct. 18, 2020, at approximately 2:17 a.m., in reference to people fighting. When officers arrived they encountered about 30 individuals, some juveniles, fighting in the middle of the street, most of which ran away when they heard and saw the officers' lights and sirens.

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By Roger Lanse

A criminal complaint was filed on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, in Magistrate Court, against Jonathan A. Jones, 43, whose address is listed as 2708 Cardenas Drive NE, Albuquerque, charging him with unlawful taking of a motor vehicle, false imprisonment, aggravated fleeing from law enforcement, aggravated assault against a peace officer, and driving with an invalid or revoked license.

Officers were dispatched to the Silver City Beverage Company (2005 E. Highway 180) at about 9:35 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 20, in reference to a stolen vehicle. The caller, Nathan Salas, advised that somebody stole his Coors Light semi-truck and headed west on Highway 180 toward McDonald's.

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – James Christopher Benvie, 45, was sentenced to 21 months in prison in Las Cruces on Oct. 15 on two counts of false personification of a Border Patrol agent.

A federal jury previously returned a guilty verdict towards Benvie on March 3. According to public court records and evidence at trial, Benvie was a leader and spokesperson for a group of vigilantes who established a "camp" at the Southwest border in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. Many members of the group wore badges, camouflage and other military-style clothing, often covered their faces with masks, and carried pistols and assault rifles. Benvie misrepresented himself as a Border Patrol Agent when stopping immigrants he suspected of crossing into the United States illegally.

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Seven additional COVID-19 deaths

SANTA FE – New Mexico state health officials on Tuesday announced 599 additional COVID-19 cases. Per the state Department of Health, the most recent cases are:

154 new cases in Bernalillo County
26 new cases in Chaves County
9 new cases in Cibola County
45 new cases in Curry County
136 new cases in Doña Ana County
21 new cases in Eddy County
1 new case in Grant County
1 new case in Hidalgo County
18 new cases in Lea County
2 new cases in Lincoln County
2 new cases in Los Alamos County
17 new cases in Luna County
16 new cases in McKinley County
29 new cases in Otero County
6 new cases in Quay County
4 new cases in Rio Arriba County
3 new cases in Roosevelt County
18 new cases in Sandoval County
30 new cases in San Juan County
3 new cases in San Miguel County
33 new cases in Santa Fe County
1 new case in Sierra County
5 new cases in Socorro County
1 new case in Taos County
1 new case in Union County
15 new cases in Valencia County
1 new case among individuals held by federal agencies at the Otero County Prison Facility
1 new case among New Mexico Corrections Department inmates at the Central New Mexico Correctional Facility in Valencia County

The Department of Health on Tuesday reported seven additional deaths in New Mexico related to COVID-19:

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By Roger Lanse

On Monday, Oct. 19, 2020, at approximately 1:35 a.m., Silver City police officers were dispatched to the Gila Regional Medical Center ER in reference to a male with a knife laceration to his head. According to a police report, the male, Jesse Hampton, 37, stated to officers that he was hanging out with others in the carport at a residence on N. Bennett Street when Lane, later identified as Lane Seth Lee, 26, of an Albuquerque address, grabbed a knife and hit him in the head with it. The victim was driven to the hospital by one of the men Hampton was hanging out with.

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By Roger Lanse

Silver City police officers were dispatched to 1700 N. Virginia Street on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, at about 12:18 a.m. in reference to an aggravated battery with deadly weapon call. When officers arrived, they found an adult male lying near Hill Street with what appeared to be gunshot wounds to his chest and left thigh. The male was transported to Gila Regional Medical Center.

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