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Longtime Albuquerque lawyer Rudolph ‘Rudy’ Chavez has pleaded guilty to two federal charges in the DWI Unit scandal. Chavez ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Albuquerque Police Department announced on Tuesday that two officers who were part of the DWI Unit have been fired. Gustvo Gomez, a deputy commander, and Matthew ...
A second prominent attorney has pleaded guilty to a federal extortion charge in paying off an Albuquerque police officer in 2023 to help get a client's drunken driving case dismissed. The attorney, ...
THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION IS TAKING THE ALBUQUERQUE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO COURT OVER THE RECENT DWI SCANDAL INVOLVING SEVERAL OF ITS OFFICERS. IT ALMOST FELT LIKE A NIGHTMARE.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Newly unsealed court documents shed some light on the DWI scandal that sparked a federal investigation into a long-running scheme within the Albuquerque Police Department.
A Durango Police Department officer who had recently completed training resigned Wednesday after being linked to an alleged ...
Police Abuse A Guilty Plea Implicates 'Almost the Entire' Albuquerque DWI Unit in Longstanding Police Corruption Federal prosecutors say the city's police department was the main focus of a 15 ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – One of the men at the center of the DWI scandal involving alleged kickbacks to officers – who didn’t show up for court – pleaded guilty Friday to a slew of federal ...
A civil rights group is suing the city of Albuquerque, its police department and top officials on behalf of a man who was among those arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and later ...
Three Albuquerque police officers combined filed 136 of the 152 DWI cases, and at least 107 of those were filed last year, which was 10% of such cases for the department that year.