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Investigations

'Ensure Everyone Is Held Accountable': 13 Guilty Pleas in APD's DWI Scheme, Zero Sentences

Oct 21, 2026

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'Ensure Everyone Is Held Accountable': 13 Guilty Pleas in APD's DWI Scheme, Zero Sentences

Federal prosecutors say the bribery scheme ran through "almost the entire" Albuquerque police DWI unit. Nearly three years after the FBI raids, the sentencing calendar keeps sliding.

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'No Contaminants Have Been Detected': 27 Years After Kirtland's Jet Fuel Leak, Air Force Still Not Treating the Fuel in the Ground

Oct 21, 2026

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'No Contaminants Have Been Detected': 27 Years After Kirtland's Jet Fuel Leak, Air Force Still Not Treating the Fuel in the Ground

The Air Force touts a 95.8% drop in dissolved EDB. Up to 24 million gallons leaked, about 750,000 were recovered, and the cleanup has never left the investigation phase.

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'The Number One Cleanup Priority': More Than Half of Navajo Uranium Mines Still Have No Cleanup Money

Oct 21, 2026

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'The Number One Cleanup Priority': More Than Half of Navajo Uranium Mines Still Have No Cleanup Money

Church Rock spilled in 1979. Its mine broke ground in 2026. Hundreds more are still waiting for anyone to pay.

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'Matter of Opinion': New Mexico Livestock Board Blacked Out an Entire Misconduct Investigation

Oct 20, 2026

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'Matter of Opinion': New Mexico Livestock Board Blacked Out an Entire Misconduct Investigation

The board answered a public records request about three former employees with every page redacted. Five months earlier, the state Supreme Court said agencies can't do that.

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'Viable for Prosecution': New Mexico Had an Open Epstein Case Until the Feds Asked It to Stop

Oct 20, 2026

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'Viable for Prosecution': New Mexico Had an Open Epstein Case Until the Feds Asked It to Stop

A former attorney general says his office had live leads at Zorro Ranch when federal prosecutors asked him to stand down. The Legislature's Truth Commission now counts at least five victims there and 30 more possible ones in the state.

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'A Bigger Impact': Federal Agents Watched Hundreds of Thousands of Fentanyl Pills Reach New Mexico

Oct 20, 2026

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'A Bigger Impact': Federal Agents Watched Hundreds of Thousands of Fentanyl Pills Reach New Mexico

The DEA let shipments move through Albuquerque from 2023 to 2025 to build bigger cases, three agents say. Four months after the state opened a criminal investigation, New Mexico is still fighting Washington for the records.

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'Not About Religion': The North Valley Mosque Fight Ended With a Gun Outside a Church

Oct 20, 2026

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'Not About Religion': The North Valley Mosque Fight Ended With a Gun Outside a Church

Opponents of the Albuquerque Islamic Center said it was about traffic. The record shows threats against the mosque, a Facebook campaign against a priest, two criminal cases, and no one held to account for the threats that started it.

New Mexico Inquirer Staff