New Mexico governor declares state of emergency in rural county afflicted by crime, drug use
Santa Fe, NM (AP) – New Mexico Governor, including the two Indian Pueblo community, in response to violent crime and drug trafficking in the north of North New Mexico, declared an emergency situation on Wednesday.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s emergency statement makes $ 750,000 usable as local governments and tribal authorities in Rio Arriba County. Reinforcements against violence crimes call other crimes and challenges associated with illegal drugs.
The large district extends from Española, 25 miles (40 kilometers) to the Colorado State line, 25 miles (40 kilometers) of Santa Fe. affected by the use of opioid And in recent years, high drug dose mortality rates with the emergence of homeless camps in more crowded areas.
“The increase in criminal activity, increasing homelessness, family instability and fatal drugs contributed to overdoses, and created an extraordinary challenge to the police departments that demanded state aid immediately,” Democratic Lujan Grisham has created an extraordinary doses. ” He said.
In April, Lujan Grisham declared an emergency at Albuquerque, New Mexico’s largest city, and a significant increase in crime required the help of New Mexico National Guards. Before, in 2023 Suspended the right to carry weapons In public parks and playgrounds in Albuquerque A series of shots around the state that leaves children dead ..
Although the new Emergency Declaration allowed authorities to call the national guards, Rio Arriba County has not been called for unity distribution. Lujan Grisham spokesman Jodi McGinnis Porter said emergency funds to spend local law enforcement officers for overtime, equipment and coordinated police answers.
The governor of Santa Clara Pueblo on the edge of Española called the state to address an increasing public security crisis caused by the use and abuse of fentanyl and alcohol in society.
“Pueblo has spent thousands of dollars trying to appeal to this crisis … And to protect Pueblo children who are directly and negatively affected by a parent or parent’s addiction, Sant Santa Clara Gov said. In a letter to Lujan Grisham. “But we are not an isolated community, and fentanyl/alcohol abuse, increasing crime and increasing causes and effects of homelessness extend to a wider society.”
The latest deaths in the region due to fentanyl and alcohol use of medical researchers Rio Arriba District Şerif Billy Merrifield.
President Donald Trump in 2020 Federal agents sentAlbuquerque, including internal security guards, as part of the effort to include violence crimes.
A separately on Wednesday, the Albuquerque Police Department, on July 2, announced the death of a homeless man in Albuquerque, including murder charges, including two children who hit the death of a bus stop at a bus stop at the prescribed hours. Police Department spokesman Gilbert Gallegos said that a 15 -year -old child was accused of being a shooter in the murder of 45 -year -old Frank Howard.
