Fast forward to today.
Over the past three months, Albuquerque police have responded to two homicides and the discovery of a body found off Tramway and Interstate 40, the gateway to the old Route 66 and Four Hills neighborhood.
Two blocks west of Tramway, a far East Central trailer park was the scene of a recent FBI search of a purported gang leader’s “stash house” where agents seized seven firearms, including two shotguns and an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.
From Tramway to Eubank, the two-mile stretch of far East Central Avenue is peppered with closed businesses, sometimes aggressive transients, open displays of illegal drug use, mental illness, vandalism and trash, area residents say.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Detectives have started investigating a homicide from 2020 and also released the names of two men found dead this month in separate incidents across Albuquerque.
Gilbert Gallegos, an Albuquerque police spokesman, said deputies found the body of Peggy Meyer, 65, in Santa Fe County on March 23, 2020.
Last month, detectives determined Meyer had been killed in the 4800 block of Comanche NE, near San Mateo, and Albuquerque police took the case. Gallegos gave no other details.
Gallegos also identified Stephen Aragon, 58 and Aaron Toledo, 30, as those found dead in separate incidents on April 5.
Paramedics were called around 7:45 a.m. to Singing Arrow Park, near Four Hills south of Central, for reports of an unconscious man.
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Albuquerque Police Department officers investigate after a person was found dead at Singing Arrow Park near Four Hills. (Roberto E. Rosales / Albuquerque Journal)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Albuquerque Police Department homicide detectives are investigating after a person was found dead in a park in the Foothills.
Gilbert Gallegos, an APD spokesman, said officers were called to Singing Arrow Park, near Four Hills south of Central, Monday morning.
“A passerby called 911 about 7:45 a.m. to report an individual in the park who appeared to be unconscious,” Gallegos wrote in an email. “(Albuquerque Fire Rescue) responded and determined the individual was deceased.”
He did not say how the person died, identify them, or say if there are any suspects.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Albuquerque Police Department detectives are investigating their second possible homicide of the day. Gilbert Gallegos, an APD spokesman, said officers were called to a disturbance on the 500 block of Utah…