Fired deputy faces drug charges

A former deputy with the Curry County Sheriff’s Office was arrested Wednesday, accused of misappropriating drugs taken during a traffic stop June 28, 2017CLOVIS – A former deputy with the Curry County Sheriff’s Office was arrested Wednesday, accused...

Police camera expert says APD videos were edited

Angell said that five videos made the night of the shooting by police officers – one from the body camera of Tanner Tixier, one from Daniel Brokaw, and three from Sonny Molina – had been edited prior to being uploaded to Evidence.com. May 12, 2017A former police...

Sunland Park city manager says audit reveals issues in police department

“Sometimes the evidence was never logged in, sometimes the evidence was found at an officer’s home when we went looking for it.” February 22, 2017unland Park’s city manager said a new audit may have uncovered “borderline corruption”...

Review reveals missing evidence in Tucumcari

A recent inventory of the evidence and property at the Tucumcari Police Department revealed that 17 firearms from nine criminal cases are unaccounted for, February 15, 2017A recent inventory of the evidence and property at the Tucumcari Police Department revealed that...

Evidence on Ice

​Santa Fe PD is ahead in processing rape kits—because they already cleaned out a freezer full of them –  December 16, 2016The trouble started with a freezer, and the question of just what could be done to get rid of it and open up some space at the Santa Fe...

Auditor: Poor tracking, police doubts behind nation’s worst rape kit backlog

The issue of untested rape kits sitting in law enforcement agencies’ evidence vaults has been a nationwide problem in recent years. In other states, the backlogs were created by officers’ mishandling of cases and a lack of resources to keep up with the...