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Longtime Albuquerque lawyer Rudolph ‘Rudy’ Chavez has pleaded guilty to two federal charges in the DWI Unit scandal. Chavez ...
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) – 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 ...
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 DWI scandal in New Mexico, where he previously served as a law enforcement ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
FILE - Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina addresses an ongoing investigation into possible corruption within the department's DWI unit during a news conference at police headquarters in ...
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.