Sunland Park Crime

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Recent Crime News

• More charges filed in Sunland Park case

  Sunday May 20 | via KASA-TV Albuquerque 

  Authorities investigating corruption allegations in city government in Sunland Park filed additional criminal charges against two former city officials on voter fraud allegations.

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• Sound Off

  Sunday May 20 | via Silver City Sun-News 

  You endorsed Steinborn and in your editorial you state that Antonio Lujan rarely takes the leadership role.

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• State Police file additional charges against Sunland...

  Saturday May 19 | via Las Cruces Sun-News 

  New charges have been filed against Silvia Gomez, Jesus Dario Hernandez, Gilbert Velez, Hector Gonzalez and Marie Gonzalez, Dona Ana County District Attorney Amy Orlando announced Saturday.

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• Symptoms of a scandal-soaked city: the political tur...

  Thursday May 17 | via KFOXTV 

  It's a scandal that's rocked the city of Sunland Park and caused state and federal involvement.

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  Related Topix: Sunland Park, NM, Hernandez, NM, Dona Ana County, NM, Susana Martinez, US Governors, Las Cruces, NM

• New Mexico 'City in Chaos' Is Rocked by Scandals

  Thursday May 17 | via Fox News 

  The dusty border town minutes from El Paso, Texas, has been called "a city in chaos" by the state auditor, because a slew of public officials are facing felony charges that they ran City Hall like a personal piggy bank, tried to steal an election in order to remain in power and ruled the 14,000 residents through intimidation and fear. 4 comments

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• Investigators probe Sunland Park MVD office

  Wednesday May 16 | via Las Cruces Sun-News 

  State officials closed the city-run New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division office Wednesday in Sunland Park, as fraud investigators worked in the building.

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• Investigators probe Sunland Park MVD office

  Wednesday May 16 | via Las Cruces Sun-News 

  State officials closed the city-run New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division office Wednesday in Sunland Park, as fraud investigators worked in the building.

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• EDITORIAL: Stop border corruption now

  Tuesday May 15 | via The Beaumont Enterprise 

  For years south Texans watched with dismay as drug violence mounted in Mexico, but they were able to take some comfort in the fact that it wasn't spreading across the Rio Grande River.

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• State steps in, suspends Sunland Park finance direct...

  Tuesday May 15 | via Las Cruces Sun-News 

  Tom Clifford, cabinet secretary of the New Mexico Department of Finance and Administration, spoke about the takeover of Sunland Park's finances Monday.

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• Suspected sex offender nabbed by Border Patrol

  Tuesday May 15 | via Deming Headlight 

  U.S. Border Patrol Agents assigned to the Santa Teresa Station in New Mexico apprehended a suspected sex offender shortly after he entered the United States illegally on Saturday, May 12, 2012.

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• Suspected sex offender arrested near Sunland Park

  Monday May 14 | via Las Cruces Sun-News 

  U.S. Border Patrol Agents assigned to the Santa Teresa Station in New Mexico apprehended a suspected sex offender shortly after he entered the United States illegally on Saturday, May 12, 2012.

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• Want to be Sunland Park mayor? Submit r sum by Friday

  Monday May 7 | via Las Cruces Sun-News 

  Sunland Park's top city official said Monday she'll accept resumes through the end of the week for the vacant mayor's post, following a tumultuous meeting last week in which councilors postponed selecting a mayor. 1 comment

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• Want to be Sunland Park mayor? Submit r sum by Friday

  Monday May 7 | via Las Cruces Sun-News 

  Sunland Park's top city official said Monday she'll accept resumes through the end of the week for the vacant mayor's post, following a tumultuous meeting last week in which councilors postponed selecting a mayor. 1 comment

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• Child neglect another problem for Sunland Park

  Sunday May 6 | via Las Cruces Sun-News 

  In the past month, eight children have been removed from their parents' custody in Sunland Park because of neglect or abuse, said police, who have been busy investigating those cases with state social services case workers.

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• UPDATED at 7:40 p.m.: Sunland Park postpones mayor s...

  Friday May 4 | via Las Cruces Sun-News 

  After a heated meeting Friday that occasionally deteriorated into shouting matches, the Sunland Park City Council opted to postpone its appointment of a new mayor until May 14.

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• Sunland Park to choose mayor once again

  Friday May 4 | via KFOXTV 

  Mayor pro tem Isabel Santos said she fired City Clerk Liz Gamez. KFOX 14 was the only station to talk with Gamez, who said she had no comment and was not being escorted out of Sunland Park's City Hall by police when it appeared that she was around 4:30 p.m. Friday.

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• Sunland Park to pick mayor

  Thursday May 3 | via Las Cruces Sun-News 

  Sunland Park has reset for today a high-interest public meeting to appoint a new mayor, after the New Mexico attorney general found that a previous session possibly violated state law.

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