Toribio showed up at a substation, was turned away

Several hours before allegedly suffocating her son to death, Tiffany Toribio walked into an Albuquerque police station with her son and said she didn’t have anywhere to go.

Police officials say an officer working at the Coronado Mall substation tried to give her information on public and private services. Toribio declined them and left, police said.

She had initially gone to the police station to turn herself in on a warrant for not paying a traffic fine.

The officer ran her name through department’s database, came up with nothing and let her go, police officials said. Pick up a copy of tomorrow's Albuquerque Journal for details on this story.