Woman's home robbed after cleaning service

A carpet cleaning resulted in a woman's home getting cleaned out -- allegedly by the man who provided the service and his friend, according to a criminal complaint.

Joseph Mosley, 38, and Miguel Minero, also known as Miguel Minero-McClain, 20, are charged with residential burglary, receiving and transferring stolen property over $20,000, conspiracy and two counts of child abuse. Mosely also is charged with possession of crack cocaine.

Mosely allegedly was hired to clean the carpets of a home in the High Desert subdivision in the Northeast Heights and returned to the home a week later to burglarize it on Wednesday. He had been seen earlier that day casing the neighborhood, according to the complaint.

The homeowner received text messages the following day saying her items were at a motel on University and provided a room number. Police later discovered that the texts had been sent by Mosely's friend, who also knew the homeowner.

Police were able to locate Mosely, Minero and Jessiline Toledo, 39, at the hotel. Toledo had her two juvenile sons with her.

Inside the hotel room, police found items taken from the High Desert home. The homeowner was later able to identify the items, including a laptop, printer and about $30,000 in jewelry.

Mosely denied robbing the home but said he knew who did, referring to Minero, according to the complaint.

Toledo said she stayed at the motel with her sons. She told police she smoked marijuana and Mosely and Minero smoked crack cocaine in front of her sons at the motel.

Toledo is charged with two counts of child abuse.

All three were being held on various bonds at the Metropolitan Detention Center on Saturday.

Former Gov. Bruce King drew 2,000 mourners to his Moriarty funeral Saturday.

The three-time governor received a tribute from former President Bill Clinton in an hour-and-a-half long service that included a long list of notable public figures -- including Gov. Bill Richardson and former Govs. Toney Anaya, Garrey Carruthers, Gary Johnson and Dave Cargo.

Clinton honored King as a mentor and friend who was always good for a "lesson and a laugh."

"I never met anyone like Bruce King, ever," Clinton said. "And I've met a lot of people all over the world."

The Rev. Russell C. Lee presided over the service, calling King an example for all New Mexicans.

King served three nonconsecutive terms as governor, winning elections in 1970, 1978 and 1990. He also served terms in the state Legislature, at times as speaker of the House. King was famous for his folksy charm, wit and personable demeanor.

He died last week, about a year after his wife, Alice, passed away.

Victim: 'You're a predator in every sense of the word'

A space shuttle is no tinker toy. But is it the most complex machine ever built?

Curiosity about the complexity of the reusable spacecraft inspired one of the questions in this edition of "Ask AP," a weekly Q&A column where AP journalists respond to readers' questions about the news. And that particular question led NASA to rethink the way it describes the shuttle program.

 If you have your own news-related question that you'd like to see answered by an AP reporter or editor, send it to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , with "Ask AP" in the subject line. And please include your full name and hometown so they can be published with your question.

 You can also find Ask AP on AP Mobile, a multimedia news portal available on Internet-enabled mobile devices. Go to http://www.apnews.com/ to learn more.

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We've read that the FDIC, which insures depositors' bank accounts, is currently out of money and operating in the red. What is the status of the finances of the National Credit Union Administration, which insures credit unions?

 Fred Clark

 Albuquerque, N.M.

The National Credit Union Administration, like the FDIC, has an insurance fund financed by fees paid by the institutions. A new fee was assessed this year, and the fund stands at around $8 billion. As is the case with banks, regular deposit accounts in the 7,800 or so federally insured credit unions are covered up to $250,000.

 Credit unions are cooperatives that are owned by their members. Twenty-three credit unions have failed so far this year, compared with 18 in 2008, and failures are expected to increase again next year. In March, the NCUA seized control of two large corporate credit unions in Kansas and California that provide wholesale financing for "regular" credit unions -- a move the agency said was needed to stabilize the credit union system.

 The NCUA last December made more than $40 billion available to support several corporate credit unions with new borrowing from the Treasury Department and provided another $2 billion to help struggling homeowners. The NCUA says most credit unions are vibrant despite the deep recession and its financial condition is strong.

 Some experts, though, are more skeptical. A taxpayer bailout of the agency probably won't be needed, says Bert Ely, a banking industry consultant based in Alexandria, Va., but "I wouldn't want to swear to it."

Marcy Gordon

AP Business Writer

Washington

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NASA claims, on its Web site and its iPhone app, that the space shuttle is the most complex machine ever built. Is that really true, even though it was designed over 30 years ago? What about newer machines like the Large Hadron Collider -- the world's largest atom smasher?

 Jokton Strealy

 Los Angeles

 Thanks to your query, NASA is backing off its claim that the space shuttle is the most complex machine ever built.

 NASA spokesman Mike Curie said a more accurate statement is that the space shuttle is one of the most complex machines ever built, right up there with the International Space Station and the Saturn V rocket that carried men to the moon in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

 Curie assured AP that the NASA web site will be updated, at some point, to reflect this change in wording.

 "It would be hard to compare it (the shuttle) to a collider," Curie said from the Kennedy Space Center.

 As for other space marvels, Curie said, "Certainly, the station is one of the most amazing engineering achievements ever -- to assemble something as long as a football field with the capacity to generate its own power, recycle water and to be an environment for people to live and work 365 days a year, it's an amazing accomplishment."

 But he noted: "It doesn't generate 7 million pounds of thrust."

 Trying to ascertain which is the most complex -- the shuttle, station or Saturn V -- would entail "a really good discussion with experts for about an hour," Curie said.

 Marcia Dunn

 AP Aerospace Writer

 Cape Canaveral, Fla.

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I have a question about the priest sex abuse lawsuits against the Bridgeport Diocese. A Connecticut court was supposed to decide Nov. 9 how to release trial records related to the case to the press. What happened?

 V. Reil

 Queens, N.Y.

 On Nov. 10, Waterbury Superior Court Judge Barry Stevens ordered the release of thousands of documents connected to sexual abuse lawsuits involving Bridgeport's Roman Catholic Diocese. Stevens ruled that the diocese should release the sealed documents by Dec. 1.

 The files consist of more than 12,000 pages from 23 lawsuits against six priests settled by the diocese in 2001. The U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month refused to hear the diocese's appeal of a Connecticut Supreme Court decision ordering release of the documents.

 The records, which include depositions, affidavits and motions, have been under seal since the diocese settled the cases in 2001. They could shed light on how recently retired New York Cardinal Edward Egan handled the allegations when he was Bridgeport bishop.

 John Christoffersen

 Associated Press Writer

 New Haven, Conn.

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Los Alamos Dr. Vikram Alladi "is not a supect at this time," according to Los Alamos Police Capt. Randy Foster, contrary to an earlier report.

 Los Alamos police are investigating possible prescription drug fraud out of Medical Associates of Northern New Mexico clinic.

 Alladi is no longer with the practice. His voluntary departure was unrelated to the allegations, and was simply a career boost, according to his attorney. The job change was planned long before the allegations came to light, his attorney told the Journal.

 The original news was reported on Oct. 20 on ABQjournal.com. An updated report on the investigation was printed in Jounal North on Oct. 22. That story is below:

Thursday, October 22, 2009
As published in the Journal 
By Vic Vela
Journal Staff Writer
       Los Alamos police are investigating possible prescription drug fraud out of a medical center where employees allegedly obtained prescriptions for thousands of painkiller pills over the past year, according to a court document.
    Three employees at Medical Associates of Northern New Mexico obtained numerous prescriptions for the drugs oxycodone and hydrocodone, according to a police search warrant affidavit filed in state District Court in Santa Fe last week.
    Oxycodone and hydrocodone are prescribed to relieve pain, but are also known to be sold on the street and used recreationally.
    No charges have been filed against anyone, and police say they are still investigating.
    However, the three Medical Associates employees in question -- as well as Dr. Vikram Alladi, under whose name most of the prescriptions were issued -- no longer work at the medical center, according to clinic administrator June Wall. Wall would not comment further.
    Medical Associates reported possible prescription fraud to the police in late September, after a pharmacist at a Santa Fe Walgreens called about painkiller dosing in some prescriptions submitted for an employee of the clinic being "way to high."
    A "team leader" at the clinic told police that handwriting on three of the prescriptions "looked like" the writing of another employee there, not Alladi's, the police affidavit states.
    Alladi told one of the staff members who reported the prescription problems to police that "he would not prescribe that much narcotics to someone because it would kill you," according to the police statement.
    Attempts by the Journal to reach Alladi by phone were unsuccessful Wednesday.
    One of the clinic workers under investigation is Alladi's 36-year-old medical assistant, who from October 2008 through August of this year obtained 780 oxycodone pills, according to the affidavit. One of the other staff members under investigation reportedly said, according to an account one of the reporting employees gave the police, that the medical assistant would "write her prescriptions."
    Alladi also was said to have told one of the staffers looking into the problem prescriptions that the medical assistant would give him prescriptions to sign, and he'd give them back to the assistant.
    After sifting through prescription logs, police found that a 27-year-old female employee had received 1,280 pills of oxycodone and 900 pills of hydrocodone in less than a year, beginning in September 2008 and ending Aug. 26.
    A 52-year-old male "associated" with this staffer and the medical assistant, who is not an employee there, obtained a 20-day prescription on May 13 for 120 pills of hydrocodone. A doctor at the clinic, Molly Vosburg, told police that "people can only take so much Tylenol (hydrocodone contains acetaminophen) before it starts to do damage to the liver," the affidavit states, and that the prescriptions were excessive.
    Another employee, a 32-year-old woman, obtained 736 hydrocodone pills from September 2008 through July, the document states.
    The affidavit for a search warrant, which was authorized earlier this month by District Judge Daniel Sanchez, was used to collect evidence at the pharmacy where two of the former employees got their prescriptions filled, Fairview Pharmacy in Española.
    Los Alamos police Capt. Randy Foster said Wednesday that "there are no immediate plans for charges, but there is the potential for charges" in the future.
    "We're checking to see who may have been involved, and who may not have been involved and following up to see if there was any criminal wrongdoing on anyone's part," Foster said.
    Foster also said it is premature for police to suggest that the pills were obtained for trafficking purposes.

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