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The New Mexico Department of Justice (NMDOJ) was successful in remanding defendants Angelica Chacon and Patricia Hurtado for tampering with their GPS monitors and texting each other – both of which are prohibited by their conditions of release.
Chacon and Hurtado will remain in custody until their trial in which they are accused of extreme abuse and neglect of a 38-year-old woman with developmental disabilities leading to the death of the victim, Mary Melero. Melero was discovered by Customs and Border Patrol agents in the rear seat of a white passenger van severely dehydrated and drugged with numerous open wounds, including chronic bedsores with exposed bone, bruises and lacerations on various parts of her body as well as ligature marks consistent with prolonged restraint.
Earlier this month, the NMDOJ brought the violations of conditions of release case to the Court, however the judge needed more time to assess the information. The hearing was rescheduled for today in which both parties were brought together and the NMDOJ produced strong evidence that resulted in the Court remanding both defendants, removing two allegedly violent and dangerous individuals from the streets of our community.
See links to the notice of evidentiary hearing as well as the addendum to the Motion to Revoke Conditions of Release filed by the NMDOJ.
This case was investigated by the NMDOJ’s Medicaid Fraud and Elder Abuse Bureau (MFEAB). The New Mexico MFEAB receives 75 percent of its funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under a grant award totaling $3,451,202 for federal fiscal year 2025. The remaining 25 percent, totaling $1,150,401 for fiscal year 2025, is funded by the State of New Mexico.
Looks like her campaign will be generating a few skid marks in it's attempt to gain traction.
Sunny, with a high of 93 and low of 66 degrees. Sunny in the morning, clear overnight.
Another great Maryland dad.
the saddest part of this story is that we will punish the guy who was hired to do the smuggling - instead of the person(s) who PAID him to do so.
They're catching the ring leaders as well, slowly but surely.
But I'd be interested to know what industries you think might be willing to pay $15k - $20k per person for unskilled labor that they're also at risk of losing to deportation, before getting a single days work out of them?
an extremely sad situation, in which one person was scared, and the other was killed - it is very difficult to imagine reconciling those two facts.
That wasn't fear. That was an extreme over kill... it is sad. And even sadder that anyone could possibly make any excuses for a piece of filth thinking he is above the law because he wears a badge... in fact to even come to that conclusion is sickening... shame on you.
by no means do i think - nor did i say - that the deputy is, somehow, above the law. my comment was simply observing that because he could not control his emotions, an innocent human being is dead...
and that is very sad situation.
I haven't seen MLG this upset since that girl dropped a house on her sister 90 years ago.
She neglects to mention that Democrats, including all 3 of our representatives, and both Senators, voted for a 68% tax hike.
All of them voted against expanded compensation for down winders.
tell us about this 68% tax hike, the clip doesn't mention anything about that - or is that something else that pam bondi has been sending you information regarding?
I keep forgetting that that information was classified Top Secret.