Settlement with New Mexico AG brings $1.8 million in debt relief

ALBUQUERQUE – For-profit education company Career Education Corp. CEC has agreed to forgo collecting about $1.8 million in debts owed by 709 New Mexico students, and millions more nationally, in a settlement with New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas and 48 other attorneys general.

The settlement follows an investigation which revealed evidence of unfair and deceptive practices employed at some of CEC’s schools.  CEC agreed to resolve claims against it, but denied the allegations that it:

Used emotionally charged language to pressure students into enrolling in CEC’s schools;

Deceived students about the...

Jan. 31 application deadline looming

ALBUQUERQUE – Families with incomes up to 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Level have until Jan. 31 to apply for subsidized child care. The eligibility was restored after a group of parents sued the Children, Youth & Families Department for denying eligible parents access to the service.

Organizers in the Land of Enchantment, a plaintiff in the suit, found the announcement on the CYFD

“Right now, my family is searching for last minute child care because we can only afford $30 for a day for a babysitter on Sunday because both my husband and I work,” OLÉ member Simone Pinero said. “It would have been nice to know that eligibility for child...

THROUGH THE WINDOW

Jan. 5, Gallup

A 30-year-old Pinedale man was charged with aggravated battery after he reportedly threw a rock through a window, hitting a young boy.

Gallup Police Officer Alana Bradley said she was dispatched on Jan. 5 to a residence on Romero Circle, where she met Elvera Curley, 44, and her 13-year-old son who was holding a towel to his head.

Bradley was told that Lester Hosteen Jr., 30, had thrown a rock through the window, hitting her son in the head. Bradley said she saw a bump on the boy’s head. Hosteen, Curley said, was her son-in-law.

Hosteen was located on Fifth Street by another officer. Bradley said she went over there to talk to him. When she got...

Sherry Cayaditto

Jan. 6, 3:01 pm

Aggravated DWI (first offense)

It began as a call to Metro Dispatch from Sherry Cayaditto’s sister who said she was intoxicated and driving with two males. The description of the car was given to those on patrol and the vehicle was found on State Highway 564.

Cayaditto, 38, of Gallup, was driving. Gallup Police Officer Francie Martinez said the smell of intoxicating liquor was being emitted from inside the vehicle. Cayaditto told Martinez that the two men had poured beer on her and that she had not been drinking.

She said she was willing to prove that by taking a portable breath alcohol test. She was also observed eating a packet of...