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Sgt. Manuel Maldonado, a 13-year veteran with the Grant County Sheriff’s Office and the head of its D.A.R.E. program, took to the podium during Thursday’s regular meeting of the Grant County Commission to share a dramatic recent experience involving crisis intervention techniques that he said “are the future of law enforcement.” “On June 8, I got called in about 2 o’clock in reference to a critical incident with a 15-year-old …
June 1, 2021
June vaccination event will be ‘day in the park’ Written by Geoffrey Plant on June 1, 2021
Grant County commissioners heard a bevy of updates on a range of subjects during their monthly stand-alone work session Tuesday, including an effort to rehabilitate the Bataan Park Veterans Memorial, an upcoming COVID-19 vaccine event in Gough Park and an acronym-filled presentation about intertwined programs that strive to fill gaps in behavioral health services and reduce recidivism among those caught in the justice system.
During the last 60-day session of the Legislature, District 28 Sen. Siah Correa Hemphill and District 39 Rep. Luis Terrazas each directed $50,000 toward a study to determine what kinds of behavioral health and detox services are needed in Grant County.
Grant County Manager Charlene Webb submitted her resignation Monday morning, effective in 60 days. Webb, who didn’t return calls seeking comment Monday, did not state her reasons for resigning in a brief letter she sent to Grant County Commission Chairman and District 1 Commissioner Chris Ponce and Vice Chair and District 5 Commissioner Harry Browne. Grant County commissioners hired Webb in 2014, after Jon Saari left the position. She worked …
Along with the weather, criminal activity appears to be heating up in Grant County.
“April and the first week of May have brought us a significant increase in serious incidents and/or criminal cases,” Sheriff Frank Gomez told Grant County commissioners at their regular meeting Thursday. He noted that “a convicted felon with a lengthy criminal history” who had recently been released from prison was apprehended this week in connection with a May 1 shootout that occurred “at a large family gathering” in Santa Clara.
Gomez told the Daily Press that the Silver City Police Department arrested 27-year-old Joseph Chavez pursuant to an arrest warrant during a traffic stop in the Brewer Hill neighborhood Wednesday. According to court documents, in addition to three criminal charges stemming from the Santa Clara shootout, Chavez picked up seven more charges during the traffic stop, during which police say they found nearly 11 grams of methamphetamine in the car Chavez was operatin