U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico
Recent News About U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico
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Two members of the Mescalero Apache Tribe have been charged with federal offenses following an alleged assault on September 11, 2025, within the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation.
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A Mescalero man has appeared in federal court on charges of assault and strangulation.
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A Farmington resident, Stevie Anthony Lovato, 39, has been charged with federal drug trafficking and firearms offenses following a traffic stop on January 26, 2026.
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Two Guatemalan nationals have been sentenced to federal prison for their involvement in a kidnapping and human smuggling scheme in Albuquerque.
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In 2025, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Mexico charged 7,099 criminal cases connected to southern border enforcement efforts.
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An Albuquerque resident, Julian Alcantar Rodriguez, 35, has been charged in federal court with possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material.
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A Shiprock resident has been charged in federal court following a shooting incident that targeted an occupied home.
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A woman from Las Cruces, New Mexico, has been charged with assaulting a Deputy U.S. Marshal during an attempted arrest.
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A California man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison and ordered to pay over $134,000 in restitution for selling counterfeit jewelry falsely attributed to renowned Hopi artist Charles Loloma.
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A member of the Zuni Pueblo, Adrian Cheama, has been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for stabbing an unarmed man in the abdomen with a sharp metal object.
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A third individual has been charged at the federal level in connection with a shooting incident that occurred near a school zone in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in September 2025.
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A Shiprock resident, Brian Adam Archuleta, 41, has been charged with assault resulting in serious bodily injury following an incident that took place on September 18, 2025.
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An Albuquerque resident has been taken into federal custody following the fatal shooting of a Pueblo of Isleta tribal member.
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A woman from Prewitt, New Mexico, has been charged in federal court after allegedly stabbing a man during an argument earlier this month.
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An Albuquerque resident has been charged with illegal possession of an improvised explosive device after authorities found a modified hand grenade in his home.
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A Shiprock resident has been sentenced to six and a half years in federal prison for unlawfully possessing a loaded shotgun.
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An Albuquerque man has been sentenced to 19 and a half years in federal prison for coercing a 15-year-old girl into producing sexually explicit images over several years and for sexually exploiting a second victim, who was 12 years old.
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An Albuquerque resident has been indicted on federal charges for allegedly embezzling more than $2 million from the Norbertine Community of New Mexico and Santa María de la Vid Abbey, and for filing a false federal tax return.
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In its latest weekly report, the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of New Mexico has detailed immigration enforcement activity for the week ending January 23, 2026.
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An unhoused woman, Samantha Lee, 41, has been charged with arson in connection to a fire at a commercial storage warehouse in Albuquerque.