May 12, 2021
Arrest leaves Hurley without police force – at least for now Written by Nickolas Seibel on May 12, 2021
By HANNAH DUMAS
Daily Press Correspondent
The town of Hurley may be without a police department, at least temporarily, after the community’s sole remaining police officer was arrested early Tuesday morning in Deming.
According to the Luna County Detention Center, Alyxis Rose Gonzalez was in custody there as of 8 a.m. Tuesday.
“That is a personnel matter,” Hurley Mayor Ed Stevens told the Daily Press on Tuesday evening. “We cannot discuss that.”
He declined to comment further.
The shortage caused by the officer’s arrest will be covered by the Bayard Police Department, as well as the county, Stevens said. While there has been an ongoing discussion about consolidating the Hurley and Bayard police forces, the Hurley Town Council’s decision earlier this year was to keep its own force. Whether the de