Accusations about cronyism in the Ament administration just keep coming. The latest, which I wrote about briefly yesterday, is that the county executive pushed for an ordinance allowing Ament appointees to certain boards and commissions to participate in the county's generous health insurance and dental insurance plan. One beneficiary was Jeremiah (Jerry) Hegarty, chairman of the county's pension board, and treasurer for Ament's campaigns. Yesterday's brief account of this had some errors. The true story is far more interesting.
Jerry Hegarty's teenage daughter Sarah suffered a tragic death in 1998 after undergoing three organ transplants and more than a dozen operations. No one knows the total cost of these operations, but one county supervisor estimates the county's self-insured plan paid out at least a million dollars in coverage. Others say it was higher.
Sarah Hegarty was a terrific athlete and courageous youth who was first treated for large intestine problems in 1995, according to what her father told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in a March 26, 1996 article. It was late in 1995 that former head of Human Resources Gary Dobbert, the same man who created the controversial pension plan, introduced a resolution to allow membership in the county insurance plan for Hegarty and others. Dobbert, according to County Clerk Mark Ryan, is the only author listed for this resolution.
The measure was approved on October 27, 1995, by the personnel committee, which was run by former Supervisor Richard Bussler. Bussler is a longtime Ament loyalist who was given a job in the corporation counsel office upon leaving public office. The full board approved the plan on November 2, 1995.
If that's the scenario, then Quindel was among those rolling. The resolution was approved 23 to 0, with two supervisors absent, including current board member Lynne DeBruin.
In passing this plan, Lippert notes, the county board was creating an exception to a longtime policy that only those who worked at least 20 hours a week were eligible for health insurance coverage. The resolution was also unusual in that only certain citizen volunteers were extended this privilege. Of the long list of county boards and commissions, the Dobbert resolution only extended the insurance benefit to five of them: the civil service commission, pension board, veterans service commission, personnel review board and ethics board. Jerry Hegarty, who says he has served on the pension board since about 1993, thereby became eligible for the coverage.
Some members of county boards or commissions are county employees or retirees, who already are covered by the county. Many have a job in the private sector that offers health insurance. Even Hagerty's cousin Derry, a tavern owner who sits on the county's Ethics Board, says he did not elect to take the health insurance. In short, the actual number of citizens who elected to grab this new benefit may have been very small.
Jerry Hegarty says he elected to take the county insurance because "it's more stable" than a private insurer. "I could get it from anyone." But his wife Dolly does not deny that the family would have had trouble getting private coverage. "So what! We paid for it," she says.
As of this year, the Hegarty family pays a $972 monthly fee for family coverage with the county. This is far higher than county employees are charged, but the same as what some county retirees (those who have not earned paid-up health insurance) pay.
Jerry Hegarty says its untrue that his daughter had a pre-existing condition, but refuses to say when her large intestine problem first occurred. "It happened whenever it happened," he says.
But the county's plan is far more forgiving. While employees can elect coverage in an HMO, Hegarty instead chose a plan that is completely bankrolled by the county. This plan is administered by WPS, but the county determines the limits of coverage and WPS simply bills the county on a monthly basis for all expenses.
This plan does have preferred providers, but employees need not use them. Sarah Hegarty was treated at a university hospital in Nebraska, among others. All of her operations would have been billed to the county. "The county pays the actual expenses incurred by any member of the plan," Lippert notes.
"The perception of the board would have been if board or commission members are paying a premium for the health insurance, then who cares?" Lippert notes. But, in fact, the county uses tax levy to subsidize the plan for county employees, and the huge payments for a special case like Sarah Hegarty add costs a private insurer typically would not take on, costs that were recouped from the tax levy.
But many citizen volunteers work on governmental boards and commissions without gaining health insurance for a child. Not every county citizen facing a family medical emergency was offered such compassion by Ament. As with the pension plan, the county executive offered extraordinary generosity to certain cronies, with a plan whose import many supervisors didn't understand.
Finally, I'd like to apologize for yesterday's story, which erroneously reported that this health insurance plan was offered free and which confused Derry and Jerry Hegarty. The latter is a particularly egregious error for a Murphy to make.


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This article was kindly written by our friends at Bradford Literature Festival.
Here at Bradford Literature Festival, we strongly believe in the power of books to help us through these strange times, so we've put together some top picks to distract, entertain and inspire while you're self-isolating. We've divided them up into ten genres so you can pick and choose as the Coronavirus rollercoaster rides on, and you can join our Bradford Light Book Club Facebook group if you want to read along and discuss our monthly picks from the safety of your own home!
Keeping the kids entertained
Escape into some fantastical worlds
For true crime addicts
Classics are classics for a reason
Get some supernatural chills
If the self-isolation rolls on…
True(ish) stories
Great contemporary fiction
Not for the faint hearted
Whether or not schools are closed, it's fair to assume that trampoline parks and soft play centres are going to be out of bounds for the foreseeable future, but children's books are packed full of possibilities for reading, performing and inspiring craft sessions.
For the very young ones, you can't go wrong with Roger Hargreaves' enduringly popular Mr Men & Little Miss books, and you can turn them into a full day's activities by creating your own characters and writing and illustrating your own adventures!
Julia Donaldson is this generation's Roald Dahl. From The Gruffalo to Stick Man, Donaldson's irresistible tales are perfect home theatre production fodder.
For slightly older children, crank your dramatic performance up a notch with B.J. Novak's The Book with No Pictures, guaranteed to cause hilarity and offer a showcase for your comic timing; whilst the aforementioned Roald Dahl's gruesome cautionary tales are as entertaining today as they ever were.
Whether you want to encourage your teenagers off the internet or if you're an adult who's partial to a little Young Adult fiction (nothing wrong with that!), we've got some great picks for you.
Jennifer Niven's All the Bright Places is, on the surface, a romantic teen drama, but underneath it's a poignant study of teenage depression, despair and the hope that comes with building genuine connections. Plus it's just been adapted for Netflix so once you're done reading you can watch Violet and Finch come to life on the screen.
Recently featured in our LGBT History Month picks on Twitter, Dean Atta's The Black Flamingo is a coming-of-age tale told in verse. Gay, mixed race teenager Michael has always struggled to fit in, but when he discovers the Drag Society, he finally begins to learn who he is. Great for LGBT teens or anyone who loves the art of drag!
Meera Syal's Anita and Me isn't strictly a young adult novel, but this coming-of-age tale has enough vintage appeal for today's referential teenagers and tells the story of a young British-Punjabi girl growing up in 1960s Tollington, caught between the traditions of her family and the excitement of the swinging sixties.
We wouldn't blame you if you wanted to escape into a fantasy world at the moment, so here are three of the most escapist adventures we can think of.
If you want a classic tale of good vs evil, J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy is still one of the best. Packed full of complex colourful characters and lush descriptions of rolling landscapes (The Shire is a dead ringer for West Yorkshire), Frodo, Gandalf and co will make you believe there's no battle that can't be won.
Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga is a modern fantasy classic and a compelling love story built around a vampire lore for the modern age. Best of all, they're easy to read and real page turners, so are a great start for anyone who's been out of the reading habit for a while.
Another saga sure to get you hanging on every written word is Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series. The first book to be picked for our Bradford Light Book Club, Northern Lights is a gateway into a magical world of talking bears, animal familiars and parallel universes that draws you in with its perfect prose and endearingly flawed heroine, Lyra.
Whatever your views on the genre, true crime is increasingly popular with readers of all ages, so we've pulled out some fascinating takes on some of the world's most notorious crimes.
Hallie Rubenhold's The Five is a must-read for all Jack the Ripper enthusiasts – and even more so for those who've always found the obsession with London's most famous serial killer to be slightly unsavoury. Rubenhold has used public records and the social history of Victorian Britain to build a picture of the five women killed by Jack the Ripper, humanising them and exposing the misogyny of these most mythologised crimes.
Yorkshire's most infamous killer, Peter Sutcliffe, is the subject of Michael Bilton's Wicked Beyond Belief: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper. For 14 years, Sutcliffe terrorised the women of West Yorkshire and beyond, and this in depth examination of the police investigation reveals how tantalisingly close detectives came to catching the serial killer again and again before his eventual, almost accidental, capture.
For a case so dramatic you couldn't make it up, pick up Michelle McNamara's I'll Be Gone in the Dark. This account of the Golden State Killer's reign of terror, with fifty sexual assaults and ten brutal murders, was published posthumously a mere few weeks before the alleged perpetrator was finally caught three decades on. As the trial looms, there's no better time to delve into this nightmarish case.
If it's a tried and tested classic you're after, you should look no further than Yorkshire's very own Brontë Sisters. Whether it's Emily's Wuthering Heights, Charlotte's Jane Eyre or Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the trio's writings offer an insight into the lives of Victorian women and are surprisingly modern in their depictions of troubled relationships. Like Coronation Street but with bonnets.
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four may seem more like fact than fiction at times, but it's nonetheless a compelling portrayal of a dystopian Britain operating under a totalitarian state. Orwell's novel is the origin of Big Brother, Room 101 and thought crime and serves as a warning against the power of fake news and doublespeak.
On a far more twee note, Enid Blyton's Malory Towers books will take you back to a time of midnight feasts and jolly hockey sticks as a group of boarding school girls get up to all sorts of japes on the Cornish coast. If it all gets a bit too old fashioned, there is a brand new collection of stories, New Class at Malory Towers, which brings the series into the 21st century.
If your idea of relaxing is scaring yourself silly, you've probably already read these, but if you're yet to discover the benefits of a good horror than these three novels are great starting points.
You probably think you know the story of the world's most famous vampire already, but if you haven't read Bram Stoker's Dracula then you're missing out on a superbly crafted gothic novel that combines real history, Eastern European folklore and Victorian romance into one genre-defining legend.
Stephen King is the (no pun intended) king of modern horror and The Shining is arguably his scariest novel. It follows a family who, aptly enough, are caretaking in an isolated hotel during the off season. They slowly come to realise that they're sharing the sprawling building with a host of malevolent spirits who are intent on adding the Torrance family to their numbers.
If it's a classic ghost story you're after, Henry James' horror novella The Turn of the Screw will do the trick. It's got all the basic ghost story ingredients – strange children, a dark family secret and a naive governess determined to discover the truth.
If public spaces are out of bounds for longer than anticipated, here are some meaty book series to get obsessed with that will take you well into the summer.
There's a reason why J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series is one of the biggest publishing success stories of all time, and it's all down to the combination of loveable heroes, detestable villains and a massive serving of magic. Rowling's series may have originally been intended for children, but there's more than enough here to delight and captivate even the most mature adult.
Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire made her a household name, but did you know there's an entire series of books that continues the blood-sucking adventures of Lestat, Louis and friends? Rice's best-selling Vampire Chronicles will take you on a journey from Ancient Egypt right down into the pits of hell and beyond, and best of all she's still adding to their number now!
If you want something a little more light-hearted (and we wouldn't blame you), join the members of the Bradford Light Book Club as we read Armistead Maupin's outrageously entertaining Tales of the City, the first in a series of nine stories following the adventures of a young woman in 1970s San Francisco. If you like it (and we think you will), then you can keep yourself entertained by diving into the next eight books.
Self-isolation might be a great time to start working on your own memoir, but if you're not sure where to start, check out these three very different biographies for inspiration.
Michelle Obama's Becoming is a warm and frank insight into the USA's former First Lady, in which she shares details of her early life, how she came to meet her husband and how post-White House life is shaping up. You can't help but be inspired by Obama's compelling and empowering story.
For something far less sensible, pick up Elton John's Me. In this funny and touching memoir, the rock n' roll icon is remarkably candid about his difficult childhood, hedonistic past and changing his ways for love and fatherhood. Your memoir might not be this outrageous but it'll inspire you not to hold back!
Have you ever wanted to know more about the man behind the blazer, Alan Partridge? I, Partridge is a hilarious account of the life of Norwich's most famous son and is peppered with anecdotes about times when Alan had the last laugh. Best enjoyed as an audiobook narrated, in character, by Steve Coogan, this autobiography takes the Partridge-verse to another level.
Sometimes the new releases section of the book shop can be a bit overwhelming, so we've picked out three great books from the last decade that you may have missed but which are well worth seeking out.
Chigozie Obioma's The Fishermen was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015 and deserves to be far better known. Set in Nigeria and greatly inspired by African storytelling tradition, The Fishermen follows four brothers who set out to defy their father by fishing in a forbidden river, setting in motion an eerie prophecy that one of the brothers will kill another. Funny, terrifying and poignant, Obioma's debut is a great example of modern African literature.
Feminist fiction goes radical in Sarai Walker's Dietland. Imagining a near future where feminist activists move to take down the oppressive diet industry, heroine Plum Kettle finds herself at the forefront of the fight against patriarchy, misogyny and rape culture.
Emily M. Danforth's The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a coming-of-age story about a girl who is sent away to a gay conversion camp when her family discover her same-sex relationship. Whilst at the camp, she finds solidarity with the other troubled teens and they work together to resist the conversion therapy.
If you're the kind of person who has been preparing for a zombie apocalypse for as long as you can remember, these unsettling tales of uncanny happenings and impending Armageddon might amuse rather than terrify you.
John Ajvide Lindqvist's Handling the Undead imagines a freak meteorological event that causes the bodies of everyone who has died in the past few weeks to be reanimated, leaving families and the government with the problem of what to do with these not-quite-alive individuals. Nightmarish in the extreme.
Definitely not for those experiencing Coronavirus anxiety is Joe Hill's The Firemen. When a biological weapon is released into America, a virus that causes spontaneous combustion starts to pick off the population one by one. As the state imposes draconian measures to cope, a group of survivors unite to resist detention and certain death.
On a slightly lighter but no less apocalyptic note, John Niven's The Second Coming is a wildly imaginative take on the return of Jesus Christ to Earth. Sent back to reignite faith in an increasingly secular world, Jesus returns as a Kurt Cobain-esque rock star who takes to an America's Got Talent-style reality show to spread the gospel, with truly disastrous results.
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Dumbo Burger | Spray paint and acrylic on canvas | 64 x 50 in.
Fabien Castanier Gallery is proud to present All You Can Eat, solo exhibition by Tilt. Recognized internationally as a traditional graffiti artist, Tilt began as a youth on the streets and train cars of Toulouse, France. Developing his personal style of graffiti in the 1980s, he perfected his artistic practice to reflect his growing love of this mode of expression. A self-declared "graffiti fetishist," he has traveled the globe to spread his vision.
Tilt recalls both primitive lettering and more complicated 3D, wildstyle characters with an emphasis on strong colors and high impact shapes. The majority of his paintings focus on the stylization of various sayings and names, rendered in "throw-up" bubble letters. Designed for fast execution, "throw-ups" allow graffiti artists to quickly and efficiently lay down their art on the urban landscape. Most interested in conveying the action of graffiti throw-ups and tagging, Tilt's style retains this classic hip-hop ideology.
All You Can Eat will exhibit new work by Tilt, including paintings, works on paper, installations, and sculpture. In his signature bubble-letter style, Tilt serves up the quintessential American feast. He has always played with the conceptual and literal application of words, and for All You Can Eat, his evocation of the "throw-up" aesthetic is no exception. Both a reflection of the American appetite and a commentary on consumption habits in general, his work uses the instantly recognizable iconography of classic American foods to present the stereotypical over-indulgent lifestyle.


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Take your sorrow outdoors and watch it change.
It seems small, but it's the best tip I know.
The source of your sorrow is not important here.
The weather is not important here.
The time of day is not important here.
What matters is this: you and your sorrow outside.
I don't care if it's a short walk, a long hike, half a marathon, nine holes of golf, or a mountain bike ride in the middle of the Mojave Desert where, through sobs, you yell your dead dog's name like a warrior cry that will heartbreakingly never be answered by paw prints and a wet nose again.
Whether your sorrow has been caused by the loss of a loved one, the sudden departure of your job, or the ridiculously quick vanishing of your marriage with a few overdue words, it is sorrow and you can deal with it better if you escape from the stale air and electric lights of the indoor lab of this human experiment we call life.
Nature has some therapeutic spell that we keep studying even though we don't need to study it. We feel it. We've felt it. We've known this since the beginning of time.
But like all great things since the beginning of time (love, babies, friendship, music, art, writing, and, maybe, cookies) we still need to be reminded of their importance and effect on making this human experience liveable, bearable, unsurvivable but worthwhile nonetheless.
When your heart is broken, sometimes only the sun can be a balm.
When your soul feels adrift, sometimes only the wind can bring it back.
When all seems lost, sometimes what you need is the amazing smell of fresh pine needles to remind you of all that is found.
So, my friends, if you are deep in the well of pain and loneliness, if you feel like you will never know light or love in this or any other lifetime, I would say this: pull on your shoes. Head to fresh air now. No matter how dark the sky, no matter how early the hour, no matter how much the air will hurt your face.
Go. Now. Take your sorrow outdoors and watch it change, if only for a moment.
But a moment, I assure you, will be enough for right now.
Tomorrow, you can find another moment.
Good luck. I love you.


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A natural cross that appeared in the garden of Jeff Dawson of Napa, California in 1990. First offered in the SSE 2003 Yearbook by Jeff Dawson, and the seed seemed to be unstable, as other SSE members later listed various striped segregations.
--Tatiana (talk) 16:18, 3 July 2012 (PDT): I also observed some instability in the seeds from PA PI N2 and WI MI B.
Trialed and first offered commercially by TomatoFest .
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NAMES (Last Name Letter) A1 A2 B1 B2 B3 C1 C2 C3 D1 D2 E F G1 G2 H1 H2 IJK L M1 M2 M3 N O P QR S T W UVXYZ LIST C3: C1 Campa-Castillo C2 Champlin-Christesen C3 Clifton to Currell (here) Click on names below for summaries below this list Clifton Michael, Las Cruces Coate Caleb, Farmington Coffman Rod, Hobbs Conley Bill, Albuquerque Contreras Mario, Dexter Contreras Mark, Silver City Cook Andrew, Albuquerque Corvinus Clint, Alamagordo Cosban Steve, Santa Fe Costales Sam, Albuquerque Countryman Levi, Farmington Currell Duane, Albuquerque C SECTION, Tables and Related Information Table all New Mexico Police Names on this website: https://policefactor.com/NMPolNames.html 1 See also Victim Incidents/Cases Police - Blue Lives Matter Locations by City and Names A to Z Indexes SUMMARIES C3: BRIEF EXCERPTS/SOURCES NEW MEXICO POLICE Clifton Michael, Las Cruces, In 2014: Crash related issues, including tampering with evidence, -, ABQ Jrnl- 2014/03/26 Articles ABQ (Albuquerque) Journal 2014/03/26 Cruces Officer resigns amid charges. By James Staley. Excerpt Abq Journal. ) Facing misdemeanor charges related to an early-morning crash on Interstate 25, a longtime Las Cruces police officer has resigned. New Mexico State Police, the agency investigating the crash, has filed misdemeanor charges against Clifton – careless driving, leaving a crash scene, failure to give notice of a crash and failure to give a written report related to the crash. He's also facing evidence tampering charges, which in this case is classified as a petty misdemeanor. https://www.abqjournal.com/374417/cruces-officer-resigns-amid-charges.html Coate Caleb, Farmington, Farmington PD/Officer, 2011-Fired; Misdemeanor charges faced for dom viol, arrested put on leave Articles ABQ (Albuquerque) Journal 2011 Farmington Police Officer accused of beating girlfriend is fired. https://www.abqjournal.com/70306/farmington-police-officer-accused-of-beating-girlfriend-is-fired.html https://www.abqjournal.com/63031/farmington-police-officer-arrested-put-on-leave.html Coffman Rod, Hobbs, Lea County Sheriffs Office/Sheriff-worked Sheriffs office 13 yrs;worked for Hobbs PD 7 yrs, On 12/04/2011- apparent suicide . Articles ABQ (Albuquerque) Journal 2010/12/6 Lea Sheriff apparent suicide. By Rene Romo https://www.abqjournal.com/73430/lea-sheriff-apparent-suicide.html Excerpt: Coffman worked for the Hobbs Police Department for seven years and then spent 13 years in the sheriff's department, working his way up to the rank of captain, the highest nonelected position in the agency. Coffman, a Republican, was elected sheriff with nearly 59 percent of the vote in 2006, and he won re-election to a second four- year term in November 2010 by garnering 73.4 percent of the vote while running against a conservative independent candidate. The Lea County Sheriff's Department is moving into a new $8 million headquarters in Lovington, and Coffman also presided over the creation of a regional emergency dispatch center and emergency operations center, said county manager Mike Gallagher. https://www.abqjournal.com/73430/lea-sheriff-apparent-suicide.html DPS dot state nm State police investigating Lea County Sheriff suicide http://www.dps.state.nm.us/index.php/state-police-investigating-lea-county-sheriff-suicide/ Conley Bill, Albuquerque, Chief, Patrolman, Lieutenant, Commissioner, Angel Fire Search and Rescue, 32 years law enforcement, Associated with Linda Daniels case. [Information Only]: AP News Archive (1986/01/21) District Attorney to file murder charges AP News Archive (1986) associated with Linda Daniels murder case. https://apnews.com/914cf7e5eec56841b32cee8a6e824f94 Excerpt: Her fully clothed body was found early Monday in a culvert in the Jemez Mountains, about 90 miles northwest of Albuqerque, police said. ″If they hadn't led us to the body, we never would have found it,″ said Albuquerque police Lt. Bill Conley. He said Miss Daniels apparently died of a gunshot wound to the head on Jan. 13, the day after her abduction. https://apnews.com/914cf7e5eec56841b32cee8a6e824f94 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bill.conley.7509 Retired after spending 32 years in law enforcement from Patrolman to Police Chief. Elected for two terms as Colfax County Commissioner, 2004-2012. Elected twice to the Board of the South Central Colfax County Special Hospital District 2002-2012. Serving as chairman on the Board of Kit Carson Energy Inc., and as a charter member on the Board of Directors for Angel Fire Search and Rescue from 1990 until 2013. Plus a Charter member of the Angel Fire Rotary. Education NM Military Institute, UNM. https://www.facebook.com/bill.conley.7509 Contreras Mario, Dexter, Dexter PD/Chief, (2015)Stalking; Received jail time appeal; badge barred in NM RDR News (2016/11/04) Contreras escapes jail time on appeal http://www.rdrnews.com/archive/?p=151277 Former Dexter Police Chief Mario R. Contreras, shown here in a cellphone video secretly recorded by a young woman working at a Dexter convenience store, has avoided jail time for harassing women in Dexter while on duty. Contreras agreed to a plea agreement Wednesday in which charges of battery and stalking will be dismissed, if he successfully completes one year of unsupervised [auth] probation. He also agreed to surrender his law enforcement certifiation in New Mexico. (Toby Martinez Screenshot) After appealing his convictions to district court, former Dexter police chief accepted a plea agreement Wednesday that will keep him out of jail, while ensuring that he never is employed by law enforcement again within the state of New Mexico. Mario R. Contreras accepted a plea agreement in district court Wednesday, without admitting guilt. He entered an Alford plea to one petty misdemeanor count of battery and one misdemeanor count of stalking, of which Contreras was found guilty of in May after a trial in magistrate court. An Alford plea is a guilty plea in criminal court, whereby a defendant asserts his innocence, but admits the evidence would likely persuade a judge or jury to find him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Contreras Mark, (2016) Silver City. Murder/Suicide/ Killed girlfriend then himself, Victim Bascom Excerpt from SC Daily 09/07/2016: Killed ex-girlfriend, then shot himself. Just over an hour after that second interaction with Nelson on April 21, Contreras tracked Bascom to a friend's house in the 1300 block of Serinna Court. There, even after a witness was able to coax one gun away from the officer, Contreras produced another gun, and shot and killed Bascom, then himself. Notice update of US News-11/17/2017 http://www.scdailypress.com/site/2016/09/07/murder-suicide-cop-threatened-doctor/ http://www.scdailypress.com/site/2016/09/10/family-to-sue-town-county-in-murder-suicide/ https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-mexico/articles/2017-11-17/lawsuit-silver-city-hired-violent-cop-who- later-killed-ex KRQE (2015/12/24) Former Dexter Police Chief Charged with Stalking. By Cheyenne Cope. http://krqe.com/2015/12/24/former-dexter-police-chief-charged-with-stalking/ Excerpt: Police Chief charged with stalking. The clerk claims Contreras had been harassing her for more than a year including once when he got into her car after work and refused to get out until she gave him a kiss. Police reports show other women in town say Contreras harassed them too, making crude gestures to them and touching them inappropriately. After months of investigation state police filed an arrest warrant for Contreras. He turned himself in on Tuesday. He's charged with three counts of battery and two counts of stalking. Contreras bonded out of jail on a $1,500 cash or surety bond. http://krqe.com/2015/12/24/former-dexter-police-chief-charged-with-stalking/ Cook Andrew, Albuquerque. APD/Officer. On 20101/01/09: Shooting incident involving Aaron Renfro. Cook was cleared by a grand jury nine months later, Victim Aaron Renfro Alb. Journal APD Under fire incident summaries https://www.abqjournal.com/community-data/apd-under-fire-incident-summaries Excerpt: 1/9/10: Officer Andrew Cook shoots and kills Aaron Renfro Location: 5900 Wyoming NE Aaron Renfro, 32, was fatally shot by officer Andrew Cook after Renfro pulled a gun from his waistband during a foot chase that resulted from a traffic stop, according to police. Police said Renfro was riding in a car with two other men when officers stopped the car for speeding. According to police, Renfro gave them a fake name that had a warrant out for it. When officers asked Renfro and the other men to get out of the vehicle, police said Renfro took off running. When officers yelled at Renfro to stop running, he reached into his waistband, pulled out a gun and was fatally shot by Cook, according to police. Cook was cleared by a grand jury nine months later. (2010/01/12) updated police say man fatally show by albuq officer was career criminal. By Staff. https://www.abqjournal.com/11050/updated-police-say-man-fatally-shot-by-albuquerque-officer-was-'career- criminal'.html Corvinus Clint, Alamagordo, Alamagord PD/Officer. KOD 09/02/2016 Traffic Stop. Suspect Joseph Moreno ran, officers Corvinus and rookie foot pursuit, shots exchanged, Corvinus shot but managed to shoot back and kill suspect. Corvinus succumbed to wounds at hospital. Corvinus was a 4 yr veteran. Articles ODMP https://www.odmp.org/officer/22949-police-officer-clint-e-corvinus Defense Maven https://defensemaven.io/bluelivesmatter/news/watch-bodycam-footage-of-alamogordo-officer-clint- corvinus-s-murder-by-joseph-moreno-released-HT3gJezUOkmGHLyKyUc4Kg/ CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-officer-clint-corvinus-killed-by-joseph-moreno-alamogordo-new-mexico/ Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwhrPsl9t5M Cosban Steve, Santa Fe, Officer at time of 2011 overturned firing over falsifying documents; a suspension occurred instead. Albuquerque Journal (2011/12/11) Firings of two SF police officers overturned by arbitrator. By Vic Vela https://www.abqjournal.com/76359/firings-of-two-sf-police-officers-overturned-by-arbitrator.html Excerpt: Under Davis' decision, Baker ends up with a three-week suspension for violating arrest and use of force procedures, and Cosban gets a four-week suspension, for the same two violations and for not following search and seizure rules….Arbitrator Philip B. Davis, without elaboration, on Tuesday found there was "not cause" for Police Chief Ray Rael's finding that Officers Troy Baker and Steve Cosban falsified their written reports of the arrest. Davis ordered that they be given back their jobs. Davis did uphold lesser findings against Baker and Cosban and two other officers, Daniel Parsons and Matt Champlin, who were temporarily suspended by Rael. https://www.abqjournal.com/76359/firings-of-two-sf-police-officers-overturned-by-arbitrator.html Costales Sam, Albuquerque, Whistleblower, Lawsuit won 1-ALBQ/2-OFC/3-REF-WHISTLE (2009) Albuquerque. Retired officer. Describes police abuses in Albuquerque. Won lawsuit against APD. (Also see section Victim Incidents/Cases) Incident Aug. 9, 2006 involving Unser, Sr. Lawsuit Samson Costales v. Schultz Memorandum Opinion and Order 2009/03/31. Watch for Antics - monkeys in the trees/background noise Case(s) Casemine 2009/03/31 Samson Sam Costales v. Schultz Civ No 07-827 MV/Act. Memorandum Opinion and Order District Court D https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/591467b9add7b049342b7e3e Articles Albuquerque Journal 2009/11/26 11/26/2009--https://www.abqjournal.com/news/metro/26224624341newsmetro11-26-09.htm 2010/04/03 Police Chief Removed From Lawsuit Judgment https://www.abqjournal.com/news/metro/030251metro04-03-10.htm MG Bralley -What's Wrong with this picture blogspot 2009/11 Costales https://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2009/11/668000-costales.html NPR 2014/09/30 Albuquerque police dept faces fed and pub scrutiny 09/30/2014--https://www.npr.org/2014/09/30/352773117/albuquerque-police-department-faces-federal-and- public-scrutiny Youtube 03/06/2015--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz_PFI2zrRM [2nd in a series of 8 college classes entitled "Police Violence and Social Control". UNM (Univ. of NM-ALBQ) tenured professor David Correia is the instructor. Retired APD Officer Sam Costales is interviewed by UNM Junior Jack Cox and members of the public] Countryman Levi, Farmington, San Juan County, Sheriff's Deputy, Drug Ring (2007). Cartel participation. Articles Borderland Beat (2011) http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2011/05/cartel-violence-cash-infiltrating-us.html Excerpt: "Then, in 2007, the FBI discovered traitors inside the drug task force. New Mexico State Police Officer Keith Salazar and former San Juan County Sheriff's Deputy Levi Countryman were feeding information to a drug cartel." http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2011/05/cartel-violence-cash-infiltrating-us.html Stop the Drug War (2007/12/07) http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2007/dec/07/law_enforcement_weeks_corrupt_co Excerpt: According to this federal indictment Countryman acted as the middleman while a Mexican national named Daniel Tarango did the actual dealing. The scheme described in the indictment was simple: Salazar handed over insider information to Countryman who then passed it along to Tarango making it nearly impossible for drug agents to catch him. http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2007/dec/07/law_enforcement_weeks_corrupt_co Currell Duane, Albuquerque, APD/Officer, 06/20/2003 indicted on Sex/Kidnap, Victim: a woman allegedly coerced into exposing herself and who was then grabbed by this officer, Real Crimes-2003/06/20 Articles Real Crimes Excerpt From Real Crimes: "6/20/03: Albq. Journal: APD Officer Duane Currell was indicted on charges he coerced a woman into exposing herself and then grabbed her during a traffic stop." Real Crimes: http://www.realcrimes.com/Corruption_Overview.htm 06/20/2003 http://www.koat.com/article/albuquerque-cop-indicted-on-sex-charges/5015479 Updates: 2020/03/19 further tech editing and index links at page top corrected;2020/01/05 Cosban Steve filled in. 2019/07/09 Victorial Louise Chavez added to list. 2019/06/24 Chavez Peter added to list. 2019/06/12 Sam Costales watch for antics monkeys in trees added;MG Bralley-2009 article on Costales added. 2019/06/11 Corvinus Clint material added; 2019/06/10- Bill Conley material added to and updated, incl. his own Facebook info about himself. 2019/06/06 Chavez Gordon added Justice dot gov article showing sentence, added to existing fbi article about guilty plea, added alb jrnl-2012 article; 2019/06/06 Chase Christopher removed as his name was mistakenly applied to this list, he was not a police officer but a suspect killed by police during a chase; he apparently had stolen a police vehicle and had injured police before he was shot down. 2019/06/05 Carter Russell, added Cop Block-2016/11/19; Santa Fe New Mexican-2016/12/09; KRQE-2016/02/12; 2019/05/02 Carter Russel: added articles alb jrnl-2016/0 Castillo Victor: added articles Lubbock Online/2012 and Newschannel 10/2012//08/10, Lubbock, 019/05/01 Christesen editing; 2019/04/30 edited/cleaned up the page from a recent transfer; going over information to add or consolidate, , this will be ongoing. Contreras, Mario added article rdr news-2016/11/4; Campa, Joseph, article Las Cruces News-2018/02/25; 2018/09/16 Capehart, Daniel NMSP added/Albq Jrnl, Justice.gov, etc; 2018/01/31Artis,JereyHO- SUIT-DISCR;01/18/2018 Carter, Russ-ALBQ DET added; 01/11/2018 page cleaned up incl duplicate names index, etc.; Anders, Billy-CLD added; 01/06/2018: Dear, Jaremy excerpt from Albq Jrnl 2016/06/23; 01/03/2018 approx Duran-SNTA FE; 12/30/2017 Chavez, Gordon ex-CORR FBI record; 12/25/2017 Costales, Sam links incl UNM Youtube video; Brown, CJ links 2nd NMDAS, Occupy; Burns Larry links added TDaily Mail, he Blaze; Babcock Todd 2015-16 material;Avila, Greg status shifted to Deceased from 08/2015; Error correction - suspect, not police officer -Apodaca, Paul removed as police officer and added to Merriman , Ronald as suspect12/24/2017 changes to placement of various sections; codes moved to separate page (see link); some amplification of and changes to codes 11/26/2017 Chavez, Jose (KOD/Hatch 08/12/2016);; Coffman, Rod/DS/Lea County/apparent suicide 2011; Wilson, Dusty; Wallace, Edmund/lea county/sex abuse of inmate; 11/25/2017 Justice dt gov CASA APD monitoring report; 11/05/2017 Threlkeld, Eric/Carlsbad/ letter to editor Current Argus/on domestic violence issues/reforms; Emmert, Richard/Farmington/cleared of charges;Vigil, Matthew/Espanola/Child Abuse; Malone, Casey/Farmington/clearing allegations regarding another officer. 05/29/2017; 03/19/2017
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