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The fact there were a thousand fewer DWI arrests filed in Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court last year shows how statistics can sometimes be misleading. With bars, nightclubs and entertainment venues closed throughout much of the COVID-19 pandemic and less overall traffic, police filed 1,044 fewer DWI cases in the metro court than in 2019.
But at the same time, Bernalillo County had 82 more DWI-related crashes last year than in 2019, up from 483 to 565 in 2020. And the percentage of crashes that are DWI-related so far this year – 35.6% – is up from 29.8% in 2020 and 16.3% in 2019.
New Mexico banned drive-up window liquor sales in 1998. We require first-time offenders convicted of drunken driving to get an ignition interlock on their vehicle for a year. And it is promising that in the last legislative session our lawmakers banned the sale of miniature bottles of liquor for off-site consu
Passenger in deadly DWI crash will be released pending trial Share Updated: 4:24 PM MDT Apr 8, 2021 Share Updated: 4:24 PM MDT Apr 8, 2021
TRACKING THE COVID-19 VACCINE Share Updated: 4:24 PM MDT Apr 8, 2021 The passenger in the deadly wreck that killed two children will be released under supervision pending trial, a judge ruled Thursday.Danielle Ortiz has been charged with two counts of abandonment or abuse of a child resulting in death and two more resulting in great bodily injury in connection to the DWI crash that killed Ortiz’s infant son and her friend’s 7-year-old daughter. According to a criminal complaint, Ortiz told police she and Alexis Martinez were at Martinez’s home drinking when the two got into an argument. Ortiz said she demanded Martinez drive her and her children home, even though she knew Martinez had been drinking. The two women got into the car with their children in the early hours of March 30. Martinez lost control
Officers investigate a fatal crash on Interstate 25 early Tuesday morning. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Albuquerque police released the names of the two 23-year-old women and the charges they will face in a deadly crash on Tuesday morning that left two children dead and a third child critically injured.
Rebecca Atkins, an Albuquerque police spokeswoman, said Alexis Martinez was driving at the time of the crash and Danielle Ortiz was a passenger.
Police have said Martinez was speeding. Ortiz told officers the women had been drinking and that at least one child was sitting on the floor when the crash occurred.
Created: April 01, 2021 06:22 PM To have this senseless act I mean, I m talking to you and this is ridiculous that this is even happening,” said APD Lt. Nick Wheeler.
According to police, the children died at the hands of a mother. All because the parents decided to drink and drive on the roadway,” Lt. Wheeler said.
Lt. Wheeler said two mothers had four of their own children in the car. The driver was later identified as Alexis Martinez, 23, and the front right passenger was identified as Danielle Ortiz, 23.
On early Tuesday, police were called to the scene of an accident where their four-door Chevy collided with a concrete barrier north of the Big-I. APD said speed and alcohol played a role in the crash.
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