Drivers on New Mexico roads should be extra careful in the coming weeks as the days get shorter and colder.

New Mexico State Police will be conducting sobriety checkpoints; saturation patrols; and registration, insurance and driver’s license checkpoints in all New Mexico counties throughout October.

State Police said in a Sept. 28 release they are bringing awareness to these events in an effort to reduce alcohol-related fatalities through continued media attention and intensive advertising.

The goal of the checkpoints is to “ENDWI in New Mexico.”

“These checkpoints are helping to change society’s attitude about drinking and driving,” the release reads. “Hundreds of lives...

GAS STATION ROBBERY

Tse Bonito, Sept. 22

A late-night call to McKinley County Sheriff’s Office led to a hunt for a suspected robber caught on security footage.

Deputy Frank Villa Jr. was dispatched to the Speedway store in Tse Bonito, 1579 Hwy. 264, after a man called and said he saw a robbery. When Villa arrived, he met with Navajo Nation Police Department Officers who were searching for the suspect, described as wearing all black.

Villa watched the video taken by the caller on his phone and saw the suspect wearing a black jacket with fur on the hood and black pants. He also wore black shoes with white soles and a white shirt under his jacket.

While Deputy Nocona Clark and Sgt...

FARMINGTON — N.M. - A New Mexico State Police officer on patrol in Farmington initiated a traffic stop on a purple Hyundai Elantra for a speeding violation about 4:30 pm on Sept. 28. The vehicle was occupied by one male later identified as Isaiah Pringle, 18, of Phoenix, Ariz.

The officer conducted a driver’s license check on Pringle through the National Crime Information Center. Pringle had an arrest warrant that was issued by the Maricopa County Superior Court in Arizona for first degree murder and attempt to commit armed robbery, that occurred on Aug. 28.

Pringle was taken into custody without incident. He was arrested on a fugitive of justice warrant for:

Murder in the first...

CIBOLA COUNTY, N.M. - When an officer approached a GMC pickup driven by a Scottsdale, Ariz. man on the morning of Sept. 12, she became the target of 28-year-old Robert Benjamin Nelson.

New Mexico State Police officer Sharron Duran was on patrol about 9:30 am on I-40 at milepost 130 near Laguna. She was parked in the median of I-40 when she saw a white GMC pickup following the vehicle in front of it too closely.

Duran initiated a traffic stop on the GMC pickup. The pickup was occupied by a male later identified as Nelson.

As Duran made her initial approach, she walked up to the passenger side of the vehicle. Without warning, Nelson fired multiple rounds at her through the passenger...