Local News Releases

[Editor's Note: Law Enforcement and Dispatch are transferring to a new system this week. No longer will they have the CAD system. Getting blotters will be different for the Beat. Today we have the Grant County and the Tri-City blotters, but it was too late for Silver City's. Hopefully all will be resolved by Friday.]

Friday, Jan. 3

Accident-property damage
E. Highway 180 and Yucca Valley Drive
Vehicle vs deer/deer is alive. Deputy – one shot fired.

Welfare check
Geronimo Mountain – Hurley
Two named subjects have caller up on the mountain and they are beating him up and stealing his cards. Deputy – closing it out.

January 12, at 10:00 am, 3845 North Swan Street – "Climate Change Lobby Update"

Martha Martinez Del Rio will describe her volunteer work with Citizen Climate Lobby (CCL) and explain what the organization does to create political will for climate solutions. Their mission is to enable individual breakthroughs in the exercise of personal and political power to create a livable world, and to address climate change.

The organization focuses on empowering individuals to respectfully reach out to local officials, friends and neighbors, to inform and build partnerships in support of climate change solutions and promote a transition to a renewable energy economy. CCL advocates for effective climate legislation, including a "carbon fee and dividend" approach to pricing carbon pollution from fossil fuels.

Bayard Police Department

Tuesday, Dec. 31

Domestic disturbance
Orchard Street
No report.

Suspicious vehicle
Cobre High School
Ran one vehicle.

Wednesday, Jan. 1

Reckless driver
N. Yucca Street and Central Avenue
Officer had negative contact with any vehicle matching description.

Monday, Dec. 30

Welfare check
Poncho Road – Mimbres
Caller states her sister left with caller's 2-year-old daughter and that she is drinking/she left about 20 minutes ago in a grey Ford Focus. Deputies ATL with negative contact/going to address.

Larceny
Royal John Mine Road – Lower Mimbres
Caller states at 2 a.m. more mail was stolen.

Reckless driver
Highway 180 @Racetrack Road -- Arenas Valley
Off duty Bayard PD officer advised vehicle is swerving all over the road. Santa Clara PD officer made contact/everything is okay.

Monday, Dec. 30

Suicide threat
2709 Leslie Road – Gateway Apartments
No report.

Breaking and entering
3415 E. Highway 180
Break-in at Farm Bureau over the weekend/side door pried open/unknown if anything was taken. Officer on scene.

Welfare check
Silver City
Caller's brother is homeless and caller has not spoken to him since April. Officer made contact with brother at SOS/everything is okay/contacted caller and let her know her brother is okay.

NM Rep. Luis Terrazas will speak to Rotary about the upcoming legislative session, which commences January 21, 2025.

The Rotary Club will meet at noon this Tuesday, Jan. 7 in the HMS main conference room at 1007 N. Pope Street. There is a brief "meet and greet", a short business meeting and then the speaker has the floor. The club welcomes members of the public to the meetings.

Rotary is an organization of business and professional persons united worldwide to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. Since its founding in 1923, the Silver City Rotary Club has provided support and service to numerous non-profit organizations and civic causes in Silver City and Grant County as well as supporting and participating in humanitarian projects sponsored by Rotary International.

 Silver City, NM, December 30, 2024–Grant County Sheriff Raul Villanueva will be the guest speaker at the January 7th meeting of PFLAG Silver City, 6:00 PM, at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 3845 N. Swan. Light refreshments will be served, and the public is invited.

Sheriff Villanueva will discuss personal safety strategies and how the Grant County community can help to keep one another safe.
Following the sheriff's presentation, there will be time for sharing and support.

PFLAG is the nation's largest organization dedicated to supporting, educating, and advocating for LGBTQ+ people and those who love them. For more information, call 575-590-8797 or go to www.pflagsilver.org.

Bayard Police Department

Friday, Dec. 27

Injuring/tampering with motor vehicle
North Street
Caller advised taillight was smashed on his dark blue Ford Ranger. Officer out with (redacted).

Disturbance
100 Hurley Avenue
Caller from Blake's Lotabuger said a male in a gray car threw his phone at the window/said he ordered online but when he got there no online order was waiting so he got upset and threw his phone. No damage to the window. Deputy went traffic with grey Mustang on Highway 180 – MM 117 (1 mile west of Uncle Woody's Flea Market)