New Mexico Legislative Intent Law
<H2> United States of America v. Robert J. Padilla, Jr.
Albuquerque, New Mexico, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with orchestrating a retaliatory killing tied to a violent prison gang and for using violence and intimidation to protect an ongoing drug trafficking operation. Robert Padilla, 48, was an associate of the Syndicato de Nuevo Mexico (SNM), a prison-based gang whose members and associates engaged in murder, drug tr... More...
$ (12-19-2025 - NM)<H2> United States of America v. Robert Padilla
Albuquerque, New Mexico, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with orchestrating a retaliatory killing tied to a violent prison gang and for using violence and intimidation to protect an ongoing drug trafficking operation. Robert Padilla, 48, was an associate of the Syndicato de Nuevo Mexico (SNM), a prison-based gang whose members and associates engaged in murder, drug tr... More...
$ (12-19-2025 - NM)<h1> United States of America v. Martin Aispuro-Lopez, Victor Manuel Felix-Ramirez </h1></h1>
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with Drug Trafficking and Firearms Offenses.<br> <br> Two Mexican nationals illegally present in the United States were sentenced to 17 and 22 years in federal prison following a multi-agency drug investigation that uncovered methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine and multiple loaded firearms at an Albuquerque residence... More...
$0 (10-27-2025 - NM)<h1> United States of America v. Martin Aispuro-Lopez, Victor Manuel Felix-Ramirez </h1></h1>
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Drug Trafficking and Firearms Offenses.<br> <br> Two Mexican nationals illegally present in the United States were sentenced to 17 and 22 years in federal prison following a multi-agency drug investigation that uncovered methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine and multiple loaded firearms at an Albuquerque residence... More...
$0 (10-24-2025 - NM)United States of America v. Daniel Johnny Fuentes
Roswell, New Mexico, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of meth with intent to distribute and carrying a firearm in conjunction with drug distribution.... More...
$0 (10-20-2025 - NM)<h1> United States of America v. Christopher Saunders </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, possession of a forearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and being a felon in possession of a firearm.</font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Carlsbad Man Sentenced for Illegal Fir... More...
$0 (09-16-2025 - NM)<h1> United States of America v. Jose Magana Garcia </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Federal Charges Filed Against Albuquerque Supplier in Major Drug Trafficking Investigation</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i"></b></center></i><br> <center><h2><... More...
$0 (09-11-2025 - NM)<h1> United States of America v. Guillermo Yanez </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center>Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Methamphetamine and Fentanyl Possession </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Las Cruces Man Sentenced for Methamphetamine and Fentanyl Possession</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> ... More...
$0 (08-15-2025 - NM)<h1> United States of America v. Guillermo Yanez </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center>Las Cruces, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl. </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Las Cruces Man Sentenced for Methamphetamine and Fentanyl Possession</h2></center></b></b></center></><b... More...
$0 (08-15-2025 - NM)United States of America v. Manuel Jonathan Ulibarri
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute fentanyl L(N-phenyl-N-[1-(2phenylethyl)-4-piperidinyl]propanamide).<br> <br> Two Albuquerque police officers pulled over Manuel Ulibarri after hearing excessive noise coming from his car. When they ran Ulibarri's information, they found two outstanding bench warrants and arr... More...
$0 (08-18-2025 - NM)<h1> United States of America v. Orangie Lee Fisher </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center>Las Cruces, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Fentanyl Trafficking Operation </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Las Cruces Man Sentenced to Over 10 Years for Role in Fentanyl Trafficking Operation</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i>... More...
$0 (08-11-2025 - NM)<h1> United States of America v. Jaime Lopez </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center>Las Cruces, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Fentanyl Trafficking and Illegal Firearm Possession </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Doña Ana Man Sentenced for Fentanyl Trafficking and Illegal Firearm Possession</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b></center></i... More...
$0 (08-11-2025 - NM)<h1> United States of America v. Antonio Quintana-Pena </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing and distributing heroin and methamphetamine while illegally possessing firearms. </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Santa Fe Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Drug Trafficking and Firearms Offenses</h2></center></b></b></cente... More...
$0 (08-04-2025 - NM)United States of America v. Kenneth Lucious
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distrivute 5 grams and more of meth.<br> ... More...
$0 (07-30-2025 - NM)United States of America v. Alex Vallejos
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of over 500 grams of cocaine withthe intent to distribute in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(B<br> V<br> allejos entered his plea on the condition that he could appeal the district court's denial of his motion<br> to suppress evidence—in particular, a red box containing cocai... More...
$0 (07-19-2025 - NM)United States of America v. Fermin Aguilera
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute Fentanyl (N-phenyl-N-[1-(2-phenylethyl)-4-piperidinyl] propanamide).<br> <br> ... More...
$0 (06-30-2025 - NM)United States of America v. Michael Rivera
Las Cruces, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual-exploitation and child-pornography-production.<br> <br> On January 9, 2022, the Grant County Sheriff's Office (GCSO) received a report of a possible crime against a child involving Mr. Rivera and Jane Doe, a juvenile. The next day, GCSO Detective Jason Jordan interviewed Ms. Doe's mother, Valeri Arzaga. Ms... More...
$0 (06-16-2025 - NM)United States of America v. Joshua Johnathon Silva
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with:<br> <br> 21:841(a)(1)and(b)(1)(C): Possession With Intent to Distribute Cocaine;<br> <br> 18:924(c)(1)(A)(i): Using and Carrying a Firearm During and in Relation to a Drug Trafficking Crime; and Possessing a Firearm in Furtherance of Such Crime;<br> <br> 18:922(g)(1): Felon in Possession of a Firearm and Ammuni... More...
$0 (05-09-2025 - NM)State of New Mexico v. Jason Henderson
Roswell, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with criminal sexual penetration (CSP) in the second degree (armed with a deadly weapon) (Count 1), NMSA 1978, § 30-9-11(E)(6) (2009); CSP in the second degree (results in personal injury) (Count 2), § 30-9-11(E)(3); aggravated battery against a household member (strangulation<br> or suffocation) (Count 3), NMSA 1... More...
$0 (02-20-2025 - NM)United States of America v. Eloy Romero
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing methamphetamine and<br> fentanyl with an intent to distribute under 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(A) and (B), and with possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). <br> <br> During a traffic stop, police learned that Eloy Romero had a suspended d... More...
$0 (02-11-2025 - NM)<h1> United States of America v. Jack Trujillo; Alberto Gomez; Cedric Kulka; Christopher Hulsey </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug trafficking </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> U.S. Attorney's Office Announces Final Sentencings in Major Albuquerque Drug Trafficking Case </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> An investigation revealed that the or... More...
$0 (01-30-2025 - NM)<h1>T United States of America v. Tyler Miles Leveque </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with interstate communications containing a threat against President Donald J. Trump </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> U.S. Attorney, U.S. Secret Service and FBI Announce Federal Charges Against Albuquerque Man for Making Threats Against P... More...
$0 (01-30-2025 - NM)<h1> United States of America v. Rogelio Rodriguez-Salas </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Albuquerque, New Mexico<br> criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Attempted Aircraft Destruction and Drug Trafficking </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> U.S. Attorney's Office Secures Sentencing of Mexican National for Attempted Aircraft Destruction and Drug Trafficking</h2></center></b></b> <... More...
$0 (01-02-2025 - NM)United States of America v. Aris Francis Rios-Flores
<h2><br> Las Cruces, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with reentry of a removed alien in in violation of 8 U.S.C. 1326(a) and (b).<br> </h2><br> Defendant pled guilty and was sentenced to 60 months in prison, which was above the sentencing guidelines.<br> <br> The parties are familiar with the facts, and we need not restate all of them<br> here. Briefly, Mr. Rio... More...
$0 (12-12-2024 - NM)Adrian Nigales v. Albuqueque Public Schools
Albquerque, New Mexico workers' compensation lawyer reprsented the Plaintiff.<br> <br> Worker initially asserts in his memorandum in opposition that the Legislature' did not intend workers to bear the financial costs of obtaining expert medical * testimony to prove their entitlement to Worker's compensation benefits. [MIO 2] I- However, the issue before this Court is whether the district court abu... More...
$0 (11-20-2024 - NM)<h1> United States of America v. Eric Watson </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> <br> Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Assault </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> U.S. Attorney's Office Secures Sentencing in Tohatchi Assault Case</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> On the morning of December 9, 2022, Eric Watson, 23, an enrolled me... More...
$0 (09-05-2024 - NM)United States of America v. Octavio Jimenez-Marquez
<h2><br> Albuquerque, New Mexico possession with intent to distribute Meth criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant.<br> </h2><br> <br> 21 USC 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(A)(viii): POSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE 50 GRAMS AND MORE OF METHAMPHETAMINE; 18 USC 2, AIDING AND ABETTING<br> <br> 18 USC 922(g)(5) and 924: ALIEN IN POSSESSION OF A FIREARM<br> <br> 18 USC 751(a): ESCAPE<br> ... More...
$0 (08-30-2024 - nm)United States of America v. Noe Estrada-Rivera
<h2><br> Las Cruces, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams and more of meth. <br> </h2><br> <br> 21:846 CONSPIRACY<br> <br> 21:841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(A): POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE 50 GRAMS AND MORE OF METHAMPHETAMINE; 18:2 AIDING AND ABETTING<br> ... More...
$0 (07-31-2024 - NM)William Grant v. Isaac Argon, et al.
<h2><br> Albuquerque, New Mexico civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued personal injury theory.<br> </h2><br> <br> On March 7, 2021, Mr. Aragon was a police officer with the City of Albuquerque (Doc. 1 at ¶ 4; Doc. 6 ¶ 4). Mr. Aragon conducted a traffic stop of a blue van because it had "attempted to run him off the road.†Doc. 6 at ¶¶ 4-5. During this encounter, Mr. Ara... More...
$0 (07-02-2024 - NM)<h1> United States of America v. Manuel Pineda Montoya </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Federal Drug and Firearms Offenses.</font color="red"></b></h2></center></i></i><b><h2><center><i></b> Carlsbad Man Sentenced for Federal Drug and Firearms Offenses </h2></center><br> <br> A Carlsbad man was sentenced to 240 months in prison after pleading guilty to two counts ... More...
$0 (04-12-2024 - NM)United States of America v. David A.
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant, a juvenile, charged with distributing meth.<br> <br> On July 12, 2004, the United States charged then sixteen-year-old David A. by criminal information with "knowingly violat[ing] the Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act [by] unlawfully, knowingly and intentionally distribut[ing] 50 grams or more of methamphetamine," contrary t... More...
$0 (02-03-2006 - NM)United States of America v. Brian N. </center<
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the juvenile defendant charged with murder of a non-Indian and assault on an Indian.<br> <br> On December 11, 1987, the government filed a motion to transfer proceedings from juvenile court to the federal district court. In January 1988 the district court held a telephonic hearing before a court reporter with counsel for the government a... More...
$0 (04-02-1990 - NM)<h1> United States of America v. Alvin White </h1>
<b><h2><center><font color="red"><i>Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Assault with a Dangerous Weapon in Indian Country.</b></h2></center></i></font color="red"></i><br> <b><h2><center><i></b> </h2></center></i><br> <br> Alvin White was sentenced to 57 months in prison. White, 54, of Little Water, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo... More...
$0 (01-28-2024 - NM)United States of America v. Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, Hujrah Wahhaj, Subhanah Wahhaj, and Lucas Morton
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, providing material support to terrorists and conspiracy to murder an officer or employee of the United States. <br> <br> In December 2017, Siraj Wahhaj unlawfully abducted his three-year-old son from his wife in Alabama. Leveille, and the defendants had ... More...
$0 (10-20-2023 - NM)United States of America v. Eloy Romero
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with one count each of possession with intent to distribute 50 grams and more of methamphetamine, possession with intent to distribute 40 grams and more of fentanyl, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.<br> <br> On February 25, 2021, during a tactical operation by the Albuquerque Polic... More...
$0 (08-23-2023 - NM)United States of America v. Brandon Yazzie
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with two counts of abusive sexual contact. <br> <br> Brandon Yazzie, 28, of Standing Rock, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, between December 1, 2020, and January 31, 2021, Yazzie sexually abused the victim, identified in court records as Jane Doe, who was less than 12 years old. Specifically, Yaz... More...
$0 (05-26-2023 - NM)State of New Mexico v. McArthur Campbell
Albuquerque, New Mexico defendant charged with child sex abuse.<br> <br> On May 2, 2002, police were called to an apartment building in Albuquerque, New Mexico because the manager of the complex reported that one of her tenants claimed that her boyfriend, 40-year-old MacArthur Campbell, had sexually molested her five-year-old son, I.J.<br> <br> The boy was taken to a hospital for an examination, w... More...
$0 (05-13-2002 - NM)United States of America v. Byron Rosetta
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 1,000 kilograms and more of marijuana.<br> <br> <table> <h1> <center> <P> <img width="300" src="http://www.morelawtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/AlbuquerqueFed.jpg" alt="Federal Courthouse - Albuquerque, New Mexico"> <P> Federal Courthouse - Albuquerque, New Mexico... More...
$0 (03-16-2023 - NM)United States of America v. Cruz Lopez-Acevado
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 1,000 kilograms and more of marijuana.<br> <br> <table> <h1> <center> <P> <img width="300" src="http://www.morelawtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/AlbuquerqueFed.jpg" alt="Federal Courthouse - Albuquerque, New Mexico"> <P> Federal Courthouse - Albuquerque, New Mexico... More...
$0 (03-08-2023 - NM)Ronald Howes v. New Mexico Department of Health, et al.
Albuquerque, New Mexico civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on an employment discrimination theory.<br> <table><br> <h1><br> <center><br> <a font="red" href="https://www.morelaw.com/newmexico/news/albuquerque/" target="_new">MoreLaw Legal News For Albuquerque</a><br> </font><br> </center><br> </h1><br> </table><br> </center><br> "<br> Dr. Howes is a clinical psychologist... More...
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