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Friday, June 12, 2009
Around New Mexico
Journal and Wire Reports
Body Found Downtown ID'd
Albuquerque police have identified the man who was found dead outside a business near Downtown early Monday as 46-year-old Manuel Pena.
Pena was believed to be a transient, APD spokeswoman Nadine Hamby said.
He was found slumped against a Dumpster at Commercial and McKnight NW by a person en route to work about 6 a.m., police said.
Pena had been shot in the chest and was pronounced dead at the scene.
APD Deputy Chief Kevin McCabe said detectives are "looking at everything" as they try to figure out how the man was killed.
There were no suspects as of late Thursday.
12 at Kirtland Face Transfer
About a dozen personnel who help maintain weapons for the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center at Kirtland Air Force Base are being transferred to Missouri, the Air Force has announced.
The 498th Munitions Maintenance Group will move form Kirtland to Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, home of the B-2 Spirit bomber. The move, according to an Air Force news release, will give group leaders important exposure to bomber operations.
About half of those involved in the transfer are civilian Department of Defense employees, and about half are Air Force personnel. No specific time for the transfer has been determined.
The move is part of the Air Force's renewed emphasis on oversight of the nation's nuclear arsenal, which includes aligning all weapons storage areas in the continental United States under the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center.
25 Arrested in Smuggling Ring
EL PASO — Federal authorities have arrested 25 people, including a hotel owner, in an immigrant smuggling investigation, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Thursday.
Song U. Chon, owner of the Gateway Hotel in downtown El Paso, and one of the smuggling organization's alleged leaders, Guillermo Lopez Nunez, were both denied bail in federal court Thursday.
Another alleged leader in the smuggling group, Maria Isidra Luna Avila, hotel night manager Alejandro Garcia Rico and former hotel maintenance man Jose Herrera were also denied bail after their arrests.
Armando Arzate, a day manager at the hotel, was granted bail of $20,000. Jail records show that he was released to the U.S. Marshals Service. Bail for Juo-Hsuan Hsu, who owned a restaurant inside the hotel, was also set at $20,000, and he remains jailed.
Prosecutors allege that since 2003, the hotel and other locations in El Paso were used to house newly smuggled immigrants until relatives paid smugglers about $2,000. Once the fee was paid, prosecutors said, the immigrants were taken to their final destinations in the United States.
West Nile Shows Up in Colorado
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Health officials in Larimer County say they have this year's first confirmed Colorado sample of the West Nile virus.
The virus was found in a mosquito captured in Fort Collins last week. So far, there have been no Coloradans sickened by the virus. West Nile is carried by mosquitoes and is usually harmless to humans, although it can cause flu-like symptoms or even death in rare cases. Last year, Colorado had at least 16 human cases of West Nile virus. That was a sharp decline from 2007, when 576 people were sickened by West Nile and seven people in Colorado died.
2 Climbers Rescued After Fall
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. — Two climbers have been rescued after falling 300 to 400 feet while descending a steep snow-covered slope in Rocky Mountain National Park.
Park spokeswoman Kyle Patterson said three family members and a climbing guide were tied together while descending a slope Tuesday when one group member lost his footing, causing all four to fall to the bottom of a gorge.
All the climbers were hurt.
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