Albuquerque

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—Authorities in Albuquerque discovered three people had died after an off-duty state parks law enforcement officer spotted a person lying in the street and police followed a trail of blood inside a home where two people had been shot, police said Thursday. The person found in the middle of the roadway appeared to have […]

A suspect has been arrested in the killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Muhammad Syed, 51, of Albuquerque, was arrested Monday after a traffic stop more than 100 miles from his Albuquerque home. The Afghan immigrant—himself a Muslim—denied any connection to the crimes. In court documents, in fact, he told police that […]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—Police in Albuquerque arrested a man suspected of stabbing 11 people as he rode a bicycle around the city over the weekend, leaving two victims critically injured, authorities said. He was identified as 42-year-old Tobias Gutierrez and booked into jail overnight on charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, police in New Mexico’s […]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—Three Albuquerque police officers were shot and another was injured while responding to a robbery Thursday, leaving law enforcement officials and elected leaders frustrated as New Mexico’s largest city continues to grapple with a record-setting year of deadly violence. Authorities said one of the officers was hit at the base of the neck, just […]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—A man considered a person of interest in the deaths of his ex-wife and three other people in New Mexico was charged Wednesday with a separate killing in New Jersey. Sean Lannon was arrested in St. Louis on Wednesday morning after a manhunt stretching from New Jersey to Missouri. Wednesday afternoon, authorities in Gloucester […]

Jose Nuñez Romaniz was on a mission to buy socks for his grandfather. He found $135,000 next to an ATM. Instead of walking away with It, he called police.

An Albuquerque Uber cab driver who shot and killed his passenger on March 17 has been charged with second-degree murder by the Bernalillo County district attorney on Monday, July 1. Court papers submitted by the district attorney last week showed that a quarrel about “a huge amount of vomit,” and the cleanup costs led cab […]

At least two members of a church group from Albuquerque have died after their charter bus struck a bridge support and veered off into a ditch on the Colorado Interstate 25 on June 23, officials said. Fifteen passengers, the driver included, five adults and 10 children, were associated with a Catholic church group called the […]

A 23-year-old university baseball player, Jackson Weller, was shot and killed outside a popular club in the Nob Hill district of Albuquerque, N.M. on May 4.

A car thief took off in a driver’s ed vehicle in New Mexico this week. The thief swiped the car, which has “student driver” markings on it, from a parking lot at the Achievement Driving School in Albuquerque late on Wednesday, Sept. 19, or early the next day, school officials said. Instructors at the school […]

A CBS-affiliated KRQE-TV station in Albuquerque, New Mexico was forced off the air for roughly one and a half hours due to an unexpected intruder. KRQE employees were evacuated from their building on Sunday night. The 10 p.m. newscast became color bars, reported CBS and ABC. A nearby NBC station, KOB-TV, was also put on […]