THOREAU – New Mexico State Police reported multiple fatalities and injuries as a result of a collision between a semi-truck and a Greyhound bus heading to Los Angeles around noon Aug. 30, near mile-marker 50, on Interstate 40 near Thoreau.

New Mexico State Police confirmed eight fatalities from the bus that was carrying about 48 passengers Aug. 31. The driver of the semi-truck sustained non-life-threatening injuries.

As of Sept. 4, the Office of the Medical Investigator had identified all eight victims who died in the crash. The seven released names are Emmett Stoker, 66; Raymon Michael Albrecht, 27; Sadie Thomas, 50; Charla Bahe, 34; Terry Mason, 45; Luis Alvarez, 49; and Veronica...

Just after 3 pm on Aug. 28, Metro Dispatch received a report about a deceased person located north of the BNSF tracks, adjacent to Elizabeth Street and East Highway 66.

Gallup Police Department officers and detectives responded to the location and conducted an investigation to determine the cause of death.

Identification was difficult due to the state of the body, but positive identification was made Aug. 29, and the next of kin was notified.

The deceased was identified as Thomas Heredia, 34.

On Aug. 20, GPD Officer Douglas Hoffman took a Missing Persons report on Heredia.

Hoffman attempted to, but did not, locate him, and entered Heredia as a Missing Persons into the National...

ALBUQUERQUE – Attorney General Hector Balderas secured a second felony conviction against Mark Webb, an Albuquerque man who secretly recorded graphic videos of an underage female in the bathroom Aug. 27.

Balderas previously convicted the same man of voyeurism at trial in 2016, yet the issue of whether Balderas could also go forward on additional charges of manufacturing child pornography in that case remained on appeal.

After the Court of Appeals agreed with Balderas’ position on appeal, Webb pleaded guilty to an additional count of second degree sexual exploitation of children by manufacture.

“This young survivor can now start to heal,” Balderas said. “The offender in this...

Store owner sold Filipino-made jewelry claiming it was Native-American-made

ALBUQUERQUE – U.S. District Judge Judith C. Herrera of the District of New Mexico sentenced Nael Ali, 54, of Albuquerque, for violating the Indian Arts and Craft Act by fraudulently selling counterfeit Native American jewelry as Indian-Made Aug. 28.

Judge Herrera sentenced Ali, who previously pled guilty to two felony IACA charges, to six months of imprisonment followed by a year of supervised release. Ali was also ordered to pay $9,048.78 in restitution.

The IACA prohibits the offer or display for sale, or the sale of any good in a manner that falsely suggests that it is Native-produced, an Native...