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Sunday, July 20, 2008
Around the Metro Area
Journal and Wire Reports
Chavez Will Preside Over Homeless Court
Metro Court Judge Benjamin Chavez has been named presiding judge of the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court Homeless Court.
Chavez replaces Metro Court Judge Victoria Grant, who founded the specialized court in Albuquerque six years ago. Grant will still hear cases in Homeless Court, Chief Metro Court Judge Judith Nakamura said Friday in a news release.
Judge Chavez has been on the Metro Court bench since 2004.
Sinkhole Slows Traffic on Edith
A small sinkhole that surfaced Saturday morning shut down a lane of Edith Boulevard in the North Valley for part of the day.
The hole was located on Edith, just south of Montaņo.
Crews are rebuilding the road between Candelaria and Montaņo, and the work includes building a culvert underneath Edith, said Tom Zdunek, Bernalillo County deputy county manager for public works.
Rain from a heavy isolated storm Friday night breached a berm, got into the uncompleted culvert and eroded the road subsurface, causing the approximately four-foot wide sinkhole to appear by about 11 a.m.
The area was dug out and recompacted. The lane reopened by mid-afternoon.
Mom Shoots Son Breaking Into House
A man was arrested Friday after he allegedly broke into his mother's house in a rage and threatened her. But his mother turned the tables on him, first firing a warning shot into the ceiling and then firing a non-fatal shot through her son's chest, police said.
Richard Davis, 42, was charged Monday with aggravated burglary after he allegedly broke into his mother's house in the 11000 block of Freeway NE, demanding personal papers and calling his mother degrading names, according to a criminal complaint. His mother then fired a warning shot, and, when he didn't stop, she fired a shot into his chest, according to a criminal complaint.
Davis was taken to University of New Mexico Hospital, where he recovered from his injuries for several days and was arrested Friday. He was being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center on Saturday on a $25,000 bond.