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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Around New Mexico
Clovis Jail Escapee Gets 9 1/2 Years
CLOVIS — A man who escaped from the Curry County Jail last summer has been sentenced to 9 1/2 years in prison.
Michael England, 30, was sentenced Monday to 4 years for his jail escape conviction, which stemmed from the Aug. 24 escape of eight inmates from the Clovis facility. He was recaptured Oct. 13.
England also was sentenced to a 5 1/2-year term for a tampering with evidence conviction in an unrelated 2007 murder case.
Nambe Woman's Murder Trial Starts
SANTA FE — A defense attorney for a Nambe woman accused of stabbing her mother to death says the suspect's former boyfriend committed the crime, but prosecutors say the evidence doesn't back up that theory.
Santa Fe County jurors listened to opening arguments Monday at the murder trial of 45-year-old Arin Jennifer Dilallo.
Dilallo allegedly stabbed her mother, Betty Rutigliano, more than 20 times in May 2008 in the home they shared with Dilallo's children.
Suspect Held In Double Slaying
ROSWELL — A 23-year-old Roswell man has been arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder for allegedly shooting a man and a woman he said was his girlfriend.
Aaron Daugherty was charged with two counts of first degree murder for the shooting deaths Saturday of 25-year-old Valerie York and 23-year-old Mark Koenig.
San Juan Balloon Rally This Weekend
BLOOMFIELD — Area residents will be able to watch, help launch and retrieve a dozen hot-air balloons when the three-day San Juan River Balloon Rally starts Friday.
The pilots start setting up at 6 a.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the soccer fields on First Street.
The event is free, and low-cost food will be available from the Bloomfield Boys & Girls Club.
Agency Accused
Of 'War on Wildlife'
The number of animals poisoned, shot or snared by the U.S. Department of Agriculture more than doubled last year, and environmentalists who are critical of the killings have renewed their effort to limit the agency's funding for such activities.
The agency's Wildlife Services division killed more than 4.9 million animals during the 2008 fiscal year. That's more than double the 2.4 million animals killed the previous year.
Wildlife Services reports that 90 percent killed in 2008 were from three species of invasive birds — European starlings, house sparrows and pigeons.
WildEarth Guardians accused Wildlife Services of "waging a war on wildlife."
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