I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Greg Solano appears to have sold more than 1,000 items stolen from the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s office on eBay, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican. The former sheriff’s financial problems, which he says drove him to sell the stolen goods, are nothing new, though: The Santa Fe Reporter documents two decades of financial trouble.
Solano admitted to embezzling items from the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office and selling them on eBay when he resigned last month. And it appears that his admission did not show the full extent of his thefts.
The New Mexican also reports that six search warrants have been served in relation to the case but the warrants are under a seal after a motion from Clovis-area District Attorney Matt Chandler, who was given the case to avoid a potential conflict of interest with First Judicial District Attorney Angela “Spence” Pacheco.
The Reporter found that Solano was sued and had his wages garnished in 1990 for an unpaid 1987 car loan. That was the beginning of a number of financial difficulties culminating in Solano stealing items, including bullet-proof vests, from the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office and selling them on eBay. Solano claimed in his resignation letter that he sold the items to help pay a mortgage that he could not afford.
The New Mexican reported that the investigation began after one of the people who bought Solano’s items on eBay told the State Police that he believed the item had been stolen.
