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In a developing story yesterday AlamogordoTownNews.org confirmed a police and fire department action at the Oretro County Detention Center resulting in a variety of law enforcement agencies descending upon the facility around 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The backup law enforcement was on hand until 1 a.m. this morning to bring the issue under control.
We then ran a follow-up story describing past events, an investigation into suicide attempts and health care and the spiralling operating costs that have quadrupled over 4 years at this facility all the while staff has raised safety concerns to the media.
Now this afternoon, around 4 p.m. Otero County officials released a statement identifying and confirming the events of Tuesday night. The release confirmed that a riot event was started by 8 detainees in the maximum security section of the facility. Previously in the day detainees in the section received a disciplinary infraction due to threats against a staff member. After receiving notice of disciplinary action the inmates initiated hostilities. Eight detainees barricaded themselves onto the 2nd level of the unit. Staff attempted to deescalate the issue. At 8 pm backup law enforcement personnel were dispatched due to inmates in procession of weapons and a failure to deescalate. Detainees set fire to brooms causing the fire alarm to activate. It took several hours to bring order and the issue was resolved and controlled by 1 am. The eight detainees were subdued, apprehended and placed into another facility with enhanced charges pending.
The DA's office has not yet released a statement with the names of the 8 people who instigated the riot situation nor detailed the charges that will be filed against each. Given the circumstances of being the high security level of the facility the individuals involved are of a higher risk of violence. An inside individual that asked not to be named reported that inmates in that section include inmates such as De La Ore and others that have a history of violence against law enforcemen. De La Ore is still housed in the Otero County Detention center pending a trial for the death of Officer Ferguson and other related charges. The DA's office nor other law enforcement officials would not confirm nor deny his participation on the record nor the names of other persons of interest until the DA releases a statement on the charges he intends to file and prosecute.
Stay tuned for further development...
Sunny, with a high of 99 and low of 66 degrees. Sunny during the morning, clear overnight.
This is part of a right wing conspiracy to keep moderate voices off the air.
Get well soon Anthony.
fascinating, i had no idea that diabetes was part of a conspiracy.
Many states including New Mexico have discouraged their residents from obtaining a Real ID by charging substantially more than a "Standard ID".
New Mexico charges an additional $18 for a Real ID, doubling the cost of a license or ID here.
Other states charge up to $90 or more for a Real ID.
question for you - do you know when the requirement for "real id" came about?
2005 was when the dept of homeland security was established - right in the middle of the bush/cheney regime....we took a giant step toward becoming a police state - and dear leader is working towards even more "big brother".
The dept. of Homeland Security was established in 2002, and became active in 2003. The requirement for Real ID was started in 2005.
Way to go MLG!!
You've secured 2 hundredths of 1% of the $10 trillion in foreign investment announced so far in the last few weeks.
What would we do without leadership like this?
at least she's facilitating foreign investments, while our Dear Leader is telling our trading partners and allies to take a hike.
You confuse me.
You say she's facilitating foreign investment, but then say "Our dear leader is telling partners and allies to take a hike" which could only refer to her. Because as I stated in my previous post, Trump has negotiated $10 trillion in investments from our partners and allies so far.
So MLG says the root problem is loneliness.
What has she and her party done to help?
Ive always leaned liberal and progressive, but hold to my Independent voter status. I have become extremely disenchanted with Gov Grisham over time. While I won't speak from any political position here, I have to agree with Commissioner Barelas comments about our Govs claims not matching with her actions. Also, I
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funny you should mention polio; our new H&HS secretary, robt. kennedy jr, has made a lot of $$ advocating against vaccines - including the salk vaccine. he's been achieving some success in reviving measles lately, maybe he can do the same for polio - pretty bizarre request.
RFK is a lot like me in that regard, he's not actually advocating against vaccines, just advocating for better science, or at least science, before approving them. Something that has been sorely lacking from the NIH, FDA, and CDC. None of which allowed any research that didn't meet their political agenda. And al