KOB Web Staff Created: June 16, 2021 02:51 PM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- The man who authorities believe caused a crash that killed a priest was released from jail.
A judge denied the state s request to keep Manuel Soria behind bars pending a trial. However, his conditions of release say he cannot drive or consume alcohol.
According to a criminal complaint, Manuel Soria was driving the truck that crashed into Father Graham Golden s vehicle in May.
Golden and Brother Lorenzo Romero, who was hurt in the crash, were turning out of the Santa Maria de la Vid Abbey in the South Valley when the crash occurred.
Manuel Soria (MDC)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. A man accused in a South Valley crash that left a Catholic priest dead last month has turned himself in to authorities.
Manuel Soria, 22, turned himself in to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office and was booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center late Tuesday night.
He is charged with vehicular homicide in the May 21 crash that killed the Rev. Graham Golden, 35, and seriously injured Brother Lorenzo Romero, 24, both members of the Norbertine Community of Santa María de la Vid Abbey.
The Rev. Graham Golden (Norbertine Community of Santa Mara de la Vid Abbey)
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U.S. officials are pushing state regulators to clear the way for a new ventilation shaft to be built at the federal government s nuclear waste repository in southern New Mexico, but watchdog groups say modifying the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant s permit to allow for the construction could open the door to expansion.
The state Environment Department s Hazardous Waste Bureau held a virtual hearing over the past week to gather comments on the proposed permit change. A final decision is anticipated in mid-October.
Ventilation has been an issue since 2014, when a radiation release contaminated parts of the underground facility and forced an expensive, nearly three-year closure, delayed the federal government s cleanup program and prompted policy changes at national laboratories and defense-related sites across the U.S.