He still is waiting for his appeal hearing in front of the APS Board of Education.
Now he’ll also wait to face the LEA board, which can dispense discipline up to revoking his certification as a peace officer.
Pargas told KRQE News 13 he’s not worried and looks forward to explaining his side to the state. He’s also hired an attorney and said he plans to sue APS.
APS declined to comment on the case on Friday and also wouldn’t say why Gonzales was fired.
Meanwhile the Albuquerque Police Department has the most LEA cases in limbo with 30 of them.
They include the case against Levi Chavez who was fired in April after he was charged with murdering his wife .
There’s also Matt Kindle, who was fired in September after he was caught on a hidden camera soliciting a prostitute.
See the full article from “KASA”
Albuquerque man pleads guilty to human trafficking
Posted at: 01/19/2012 7:40 PM
By: Shaun Griswold, KOB.com
An Albuquerque man accused of forcing a 17-year-old girl into prostitution pled guilty on Thursday.
Kendell Morrell, 22, was sentenced to three years in prison and two years probation when he is released.
According to court documents, Morrell met the girl through Facebook.
When she indicated that she needed work, Morrell offered her a job then forced the girl to have sex with him.
Police said he then sold the girl for $150.
The Attorney General’s office said it’s working to crack down on human trafficking cases.
“The Attorney General’s border violence division is busy and they’re not going to stop whether they get tips or however they find out about these cases they will pursue them all the way to the courtroom and will get these people off the street,” Lynn Southard, the AG’s spokesperson said.
See the full article from “KOB.com”
NW Albuquerque home revamped after rough history
Posted at: 01/10/2012 10:28 PM
By: Eddie Garcia, KOB Eyewitness News 4
Life on 58th Street northwest started out good for Bill Edwards and his young family back in the early 70’s but after a while, the house catty-corner from them became a magnet for crime.
“We’re talking about thievery…neighborhood thievery…breaking in our house – breaking in our sheds in the back,” Edwards said.
Edwards and his neighbors witnessed blatant prostitution, drug deals and violence.
“There wasn’t much you could do but call police and they were out here hundreds of times,” Edwards said.
Finally, police had enough evidence to take action and arrest the people in the house.
About a year and a half ago the city sued the owner who in turn sold the house to Benny Archibeque.
See the full article from “KOB.com”
… West Mesa Murders’ Website Launched To Yield Tips
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Albuquerque police have launched an Internet and public relations blitz in the hunt for a serial killer they believe killed 11 women whose bodies were found in mass graves nearly three years ago.
Albuquerque Police Chief Ray Schultz says authorities recently unveiled a website, helpuscatchakiller.com.
Schultz said the website so far has yielded dozens of tips, but nothing could break open the mystery.
Authorities have said nearly all the dead women worked as prostitutes before they disappeared between 2003 to early 2005.
Their bodies were found in 2009 after a woman and her dog found a large bone protruding from the dirt. They are called the “West Mesa murders” because of where the bodies were buried on the west side of Albuquerque.
Armie Hammer plays John Reid/The Lone Ranger. Hammer recently co-starred along with Julia Roberts and Lily Collins in The Brothers Grimm version of Snow White titled “Mirror Mirror” which is set to be released on March 16, 2012. James Frain will be playing a hard-nosed foreman who works for the story’s chief villain, railroad tycoon Latham Cole, played by two-time Academy Award nominatee Tom Wilkinson. Frain’s character oversees Chinese and Indian rail workers. British actress Ruth Wilson has been cast as Rebecca Reid, who is married to Dan Reid, head of the Texas Rangers and older brother of The Lone Ranger. (continued below)
Other Lone Ranger cast members include James Badge Dale as Dan Reid; Academy Award winner Timothy Hutton; Golden Globe nominated Canadian actor Barry Pepper (The Green Mile) as leader of the seventh cavalry Captain J. Fuller; Dwight Yoakam (Sling Blade) as Butch Cavendish, the villainous leader of the Cavendish gang that attacks the Texas Rangers; and two-time Academy Award nominee Helena Bonham Carter as the madam of a brothel who deals with gentlemen and scoundrels.
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In December, the Albuquerque Journal broke the news that a grand jury was investigating whether money from campaign supporters was used to settle a threatened lawsuit against Richardson in 2007 by a woman who formerly worked in state government. Richardson and federal prosecutors have declined to comment about the probe.
In another judicial scandal, Albuquerque’s chief criminal judge, Pat Murdoch, resigned in disgrace after he was accused of raping a prostitute. And one of the state’s most respected political professors and a former president of the University of New Mexico, F. Chris Garcia, was suspended after he was arrested on charges he recruited women for an elaborate online prostitution ring run by another college professor, David Flory of Farleigh Dickinson University, who has homes in New York and Santa Fe.
He still is waiting for his appeal hearing in front of the APS Board of Education.
Now he’ll also wait to face the LEA board, which can dispense discipline up to revoking his certification as a peace officer.
Pargas told KRQE News 13 he’s not worried and looks forward to explaining his side to the state. He’s also hired an attorney and said he plans to sue APS.
APS declined to comment on the case on Friday and also wouldn’t say why Gonzales was fired.
Meanwhile the Albuquerque Police Department has the most LEA cases in limbo with 30 of them.
They include the case against Levi Chavez who was fired in April after he was charged with murdering his wife .
There’s also Matt Kindle, who was fired in September after he was caught on a hidden camera soliciting a prostitute.
See the full article from “KRQE”
In December, the Albuquerque Journal broke the news that a grand jury was investigating whether money from campaign supporters was used to settle a threatened lawsuit against Richardson in 2007 by a woman who formerly worked in state government. Richardson and federal prosecutors have declined to comment about the probe.
In another judicial scandal, Albuquerque’s chief criminal judge, Pat Murdoch, resigned in disgrace after he was accused of raping a prostitute. And one of the state’s most respected political professors and a former president of the University of New Mexico, F. Chris Garcia, was suspended after he was arrested on charges he recruited women for an elaborate online prostitution ring run by another college professor, David Flory of Farleigh Dickinson University, who has homes in New York and Santa Fe.
See the full article from “NECN”
KOB Eyewitness News 4 continues to countdown our top 10 stories of 2011. Police describe our number five story as the Facebook for online prostitution: an elaborate website called Southwest Companions.
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… With information about the victims, the reward and what people can do to help us solve the case,” Schultz said.
APD and taxpayers will not have to pay a dime. Greenoffers has said it will foot the bill for the first 5,000 it expects to print in a few weeks.
Most will be given to businesses to hand out; especially those around Central Avenue, where police said the women were known in the world of prostitution.
The president of the company said the rest will be given to detectives to hand out. Detectives, Schultz said, are still very hard at work, turning over every stone to try and solve this case.
“We continue to send detectives out into the streets to talk to prostitutes, people who are out in the streets late in the evening,” Schultz said. “We never want the case to go cold or stale.”
See the full article from “KRQE”