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BLOOMFIELD – A Jicarilla Apache Game and Fish officer has been arrested after allegedly decapitating a 9-week-old gray kitten at his residence in Bloomfield.
Joseph Weaver, 40, faces a fourth-degree felony charge of extreme cruelty to animals. He was off duty at the time.
According to a news release from the Bloomfield Police Department, officers were dispatched Sunday evening to a home in the 1700 block of Mountain View Circle for a welfare check. When officers arrived, they found Weaver’s family distraught about their kitten.
His wife told police officers he called her into the bedroom while she was preparing dinner. The release says she found her husband standing with a pocketknife in his hand. The kitten was found floating in the bathroom sink with its head severed from its body.
Marco Florez, 37, allegedly shot a juvenile in the leg at a family gathering in the early morning hours of Nov. 27 at a residence in the area of Aztec, according to The Daily Times archives.
The DA’s office on Dec. 9 amended the criminal complaint, adding a first-degree felony charge of child abuse (results in great bodily harm), according to court documents.
He faces an 18-year prison sentence if convicted of the child abuse count and three-year prison sentence if convicted of the aggravated battery charge.
FARMINGTON The San Juan County District Attorney’s Office have added a first-degree felony count of child abuse against a man accused of a shooting after the DA’s office learned the gunshot victim was a juvenile.