Ryan Lowery

1 week ago | lasvegasoptic.com | Ryan Lowery

A man and his girlfriend are facing multiple felony charges after area law enforcement disrupted an alleged plot to bring methamphetamine and opioids into the San Miguel County Detention Center. Prosecutors last week charged 30-year-old Tommy J. Apodaca and 34-year-old Josette V. Martin, alleging in an affidavit that Martin and Apodaca concocted a plan for Apodaca to get arrested on purpose so he could sneak packages of narcotics into the jail.

1 week ago | lasvegasoptic.com | Ryan Lowery

A judge last week convicted a man on a felony count of aggravated indecent exposure in a 2023 case involving a 6-year-old girl. District Court Judge Michael Aragon on April 3 convicted 58-year-old Louie E. Mares after finding that he made lewd comments to a 6-year-old girl outside her Las Vegas home and then unzipped his pants and exposed his genitals. Las Vegas police initially responded in November 2023 to a call in the 2700 block of Seventh Street about an intoxicated man with blood on his face.

2 weeks ago | boomtownlosalamos.org | Ryan Lowery

Welcome to our BoomGov agenda preview for the upcoming Los Alamos County Council meeting. The Los Alamos County Council will hold its regular session on April 8, 2025, at 6 p.m. inside the Council Chambers, 1000 Central Avenue. If you can’t make it in person, the meeting will also be available via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85448619994Here’s a quick look at what’s on the agenda.

3 weeks ago | lasvegasoptic.com | Ryan Lowery

A 20-year-old man is dead and a 23-year-old man is charged with murder following a shooting at a home near the Las Vegas Municipal Airport Tuesday afternoon. Police arrested Cody R. Ramone after responding to a shooting at a home on Prairie Hill Road just before 1:30 p.m. Tuesday and finding Trevor Szalai dead from an apparent gunshot wound. New Mexico State Police was dispatched to the home for a report of a shooting and an arriving officer found Ramone rendering aid to Szalai.

4 weeks ago | lasvegasoptic.com | Ryan Lowery

Police in Las Vegas arrested a 14-year-old boy and a 24-year-old man after stopping a truck that’d been reported stolen. During searches, deputies found two handguns without serial numbers, along with cocaine and methamphetamine, according to court documents. Deputies with the San Miguel County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday arrested 24-year-old Joelouis Rivera of San Miguel County and a 14-year-old boy from Mora County after the traffic stop.