Bernalillo County Undersheriff Johann Jareno and Deputy Jeffry Bartram are the latest implicated in a "generational" scheme.

Another local, high-profile, defense attorney has been implicated in the federal DWI Deception scandal -- Rudy Chavez.

Albuquerque attorney Rudolph B. Chavez has denied any involvement in a decades-old criminal scheme in which law enforcement officers took bribes from an Albuquerque law firm to make sure suspects they ...

A now 13-year-old boy charged with murder in an apparently deliberate hit-and-run that targeted a bicyclist on his way to ...

BEFORE TODAY, MULTIPLE FORMER OFFICERS FROM THE ALBUQUERQUE POLICE DEPARTMENT PLEADED GUILTY. BUT TODAY ... WORKING WITH DEFENSE ATTORNEY THOMAS CLEAR AND PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR RICARDO MENDEZ ...

ALBUQUERQUE ... In his federal guilty plea, Hammerel admitted to conspiring with former defense attorney, Thomas Clear III, his paralegal Rick Mendez, and an unnamed ‘supervisory deputy ...

A Navajo man pleaded guilty in federal court to second degree murder and firearms charges stemming from a fatal shooting in 2022.

Albuquerque attorney Thomas Clear III, a former chair of the state Public Defender Commission, pleaded guilty last month to a slew of federal counts, including racketeering, weeks after his ...