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Officer Honorio Alba Jr. was implicated in the APD DWI unit bribery enterprise and resigned in Feb 2024; he later pleaded guilty in Feb 2025 to federal charges for accepting at least $5,000 in bribes as part of the scheme to dismiss DWI cases:contentReference[oaicite:3]{index=3}:contentReference[oaicite:4]{index=4}.
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Officer Liam King was indicted in 2023 for soliciting sexual favors from a woman while on duty, facing charges of false imprisoNew Mexicoent and criminal sexual contact; an internal investigation confirmed he violated policy and he was placed on leave as the case went to a grand jury:contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}.
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Officer Isaiah Cheromiah (NMSP) was arrested in 2023 on charges of sexual assault after a woman reported he had raped her; an investigation revealed that in July 2022, while he was serving with Grants PD and off-duty on a National Guard deployment, Cheromiah gave alcohol to a 20-year-old female soldier and sexually assaulted her as […]
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Officer Daniel Capehart (NMSP) was arrested in 2018 and federally charged with drug trafficking crimes; prosecutors say he stole seized drugs while on duty and gave them to women he was romantically interested in, including delivering marijuana to a 16-year-old in exchange for dropping her friend’s citations, all while using his position as a state […]
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Officer John Roskos (Rio Rancho PD) is the subject of a civil rights lawsuit alleging excessive force and unlawful conduct during a 2020 incident: the complaint states Roskos failed to identify himself, immediately pepper-sprayed the plaintiff in the face, trespassed on private property without a warrant, and grabbed the man by the shirt and dragged […]
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Sgt. Toby Lafave (NMSP) was put on administrative leave in Feb 2025 after being implicated in Albuquerque’s DWI dismissal scandal; he is accused of collaborating with officers from APD and BCSO in a scheme to accept bribes in exchange for not pursuing DWI charges, becoming the first state police officer swept up in the federal […]
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Deputy Jeff Hammerel (BCSO) resigned in Feb 2025 and accepted a plea deal for his role in the DWI bribery scandal; he admitted to participating in the scheme to fix DWI cases (known as the “DWI Enterprise”) and was one of the first officers from BCSO to be charged and convicted in the federal investigation:contentReference[oaicite:29]{index=29}.
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Undersheriff Johann Jareno (BCSO) was named in the FBI’s DWI bribery probe and resigned in Feb 2025 amid allegations he was involved in the long-running enterprise to corrupt the DWI prosecution process; his departure came shortly after the scandal became public, marking the fall of a high-ranking official linked to the scheme:contentReference[oaicite:30]{index=30}.
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Officer Simon Drobik, a former APD spokesman, was found to have abused the overtime system by claiming extraordinarily high hours; an oversight investigation in 2019 determined he violated policy over 50 times in one year (billing the city for more than 24 hours in some days), and he abruptly retired in July 2020 amid an […]
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Deputy Jeffrey Bartram (BCSO) was placed on leave in March 2025 as a third deputy implicated in the DWI case dismissal scandal spanning multiple agencies:contentReference[oaicite:27]{index=27}; he had previously been sued for excessive force in a 2019 traffic stop where he allegedly became enraged during a DWI investigation and struck a driver (Adrian Avitia) with punches […]
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Det. Keith Sandy (APD) was one of two officers charged with murder in the March 2014 shooting of James Boyd, a homeless man with mental illness who was camping illegally; Sandy was allowed to retire months after the incident, and although his 2016 trial for second-degree murder ended in a hung jury (with jurors leaning […]
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Officer Dominique Perez was the second officer indicted for James Boyd’s shooting in 2014; he faced charges including second-degree murder alongside Sandy, but their case resulted in a mistrial in 2016 when the jury deadlocked (9-3 for acquittal), and the new District Attorney ultimately dropped the charges rather than retrying the case:contentReference[oaicite:23]{index=23}:contentReference[oaicite:24]{index=24}.
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Officer Jeremy Dear was fired in December 2014 for repeatedly violating camera policy – notably, his body camera was off when he shot and killed 19-year-old Mary Hawkes during a foot chase; the lack of footage and his history of not recording encounters prompted his termination and a wrongful death lawsuit by Hawkes’ family:contentReference[oaicite:19]{index=19}:contentReference[oaicite:20]{index=20}.
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Officer Cedric Greer was fired and criminally convicted for a 2015 incident in which he turned off his body camera and beat a man during a call; a cadet witnessed Greer punch and injure a homeless suspect, leading to Greer’s arrest for aggravated battery and a plea deal that ended his law enforcement career:contentReference[oaicite:16]{index=16}.
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Officer Pablo Padilla resigned from APD after a 2014 traffic stop in which he kneed a DWI suspect (a UNM law student) in the groin so hard it ruptured the man’s testicle; Padilla was charged with aggravated battery and evidence tampering for the excessive force and for seizing and deleting a bystander’s video of the […]