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THE VOICE OF THE PECOS VALLEY
Chief slams city over settlement
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Roswell’s police chief expressed his frustration Monday with city officials’ decision to recently settle a $1.25 million lawsuit, brought by the family of a mentally ill man who died in police custody in March 2008. Interim Chief Dennis Kintigh told reporters he didn’t think “justice (was) achieved” by settling after
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www.roswell-record.com Kintigh, who called the decision not to go to trial “profoundly wrong,” told reporters that he disagreed with the mayor.
the city and its Police Department were sued by the family of Javier Aguilar, who died in his home following a physical altercation with officers. “I have been on a slow burn, as I say, for weeks on this whole thing because I felt it was a grave injus-
tice,” he said. “What has happened to the officers of this Police Department and this community has not been justice. The officers of the Roswell Police Department have been vilified (and) the public treasury has been looted as result of this settlement.”
The family’s civil rights suit claims police used excessive force by attempting to subdue him by employing pepper spray, a Taser, leg shackles and by hitting him with retractable batons. Aguilar’s cause of death was ruled as result of “positional asphyxia,” according to the Office of the Medical Investigator, which listed obesity and hypertensive cardiac disSee CHIEF, Page A3
SANTA FE (AP) — The Very Rev. John Bethancourt, founding pastor at Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, called it a “dream come true.” For 15 years, he has been imagining the day when the interior walls of the Cordova Road church would be covered with paintings of Jesus, Mary, saints and angels. Climbing down from the ... - PAGE A2
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Generations of Learning hosts food drive Students at Generations of Learning donated hundreds of cans of food to Community Kitchen, Monday.
As Thanksgiving nears, students at a local preschool did their part to help give others a feast by hosting a canned food drive. Hundreds of cans were collected at Generations of Learning and more than
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Shanice Steenholdt has been a force in the middle for the Roswell girls basketball team since her freshman year. On Monday, she signed on to be a force for the Houston Baptist University womenʼs basketball team. The 6-foot-1 senior signed her national letter of intent to continue her academic ... - PAGE B1
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100 students helped load the food into the back of a truck headed for Community Kitchen, Monday. “We have this every year to help our Community Kitchen,” said Marilyn Wagner, the daycare center’s director.
“We try to help stock their pantry this time of year and teach the children that there are people less fortunate than they,” she said. “We just really like to make an effort.” The Thanksgiving drive has been a staple for
about seven years, Wagner said. More than 140 children were in the morning class that helped collect nearly 300 cans of food. The Kitchen, 115 E. Deming St., is open every day of the year.
DuffeyOrtega recount Nov. 29
A District Court judge granted an application for a recount in the race for County Commissioner District 1, according to county election officials. Judge Charles Currier will oversee a recount on Monday in the race that was won by two votes, officials said. The event is slated for Nov. 29 at 1:45 p.m., in the Chaves County Administrative Center. The application was filed by representatives for Eloy Ortega, the Democrat contender in the race against Republican James Duffey. Ortega is asking for a recount for 11 precincts and posted a bond for $13,407 with the county treasurer’s office as security for the expense, according to court records.
Teaching adult roles TSA chief: Don’t boycott scans Jonathan Entzminger Record Staff Writer
GRADS, a United Way agency, has been a program at University High School, 25 W. Martin St., for 10 years. Graduation Reality And Dual-Role Skills, is a statewide program for teenage parents that prepares young fathers and mothers for the real world. University High School, a school where 46 students are currently or expecting to be parents, has a GRADS curriculum for teens and young adults ages 14 to 20. According to Laura D’Arezzo, University High School GRADS teacher, 32 students are in program this semester. “We want the students to graduate with developed positive parenting skills,” D’Arezzo said. ”One of the main goals is to teach them how to balance school,
work and family issues. It’s difficult to be a student. It’s dif ficult to be a parent. When you put those two together, it’s even double difficult to balance both roles.” As the program helps teens create balance and responsibility, they learn life skills and attempt to break generational cycles within their families like poverty. “We do things to prepare them for work and careers,” D’Arezzo said. “One of our goals is so that the children will not...grow up in poverty. We want them to look at their future and see what kind of goals they want to
ATLANTA (AP) — The nation’s airport security chief pleaded with Thanksgiving travelers for understanding and urged them not to boycott fullbody scans on Wednesday, lest their protest snarl what is already one of the busiest, most stressful flying days of the year. Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole said Monday that such delaying actions would only “tie up people who want to go home and see their loved ones.” “We all wish we lived in AP Photo a world where security procedures at airports An airline passenger is patted down by a TSA agent at weren’t necessary,” he O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Monday. said, “but that just isn’t a plane over Detroit last passenger revolt Monday the case.” at many major U.S. airHe noted the alleged Christmas. ports, with very few peoDespite tough talk on attempt by a Nigerian with explosives in his the Internet, there was underwear to bring down little if any indication of a See SCANS, Page A3
Feds raid 3 hedge funds linked to insider trading probe WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Bureau of Investigation has raided three hedge funds in what one of the targets is calling a wide-ranging probe of insider trading in the financial industry. Bureau employees searched the New York of fices of Level Global Investors LP, and the Stamford, Conn., headquarters of Diamondback Capital Management LLC, a law enforcement official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss an ongoing case.
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Another FBI official said the agency also searched a third site, at 30 Federal St. in Boston. Hedge fund Loch Capital Management LLC has its headquarters at that address. The FBI said in a statement that it had executed search warrants in the three states “in an ongoing investigation.” Agency spokesmen said they could not comment further because the court documents are under seal. A spokesman for Level Global acknowledged the raid took place Monday. “We can confir m that
The raids come a month after U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in Manhattan told the New York City Bar Association that white-collar crime was on the rise, carried out by Wall Street heavyweights ...
agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation visited our offices this morning as part of what we believe to be a broader investigation,” the spokesman said in a statement. “We are cooperating fully with the authorities and, at the same time, we are fully operational and
continue to work diligently for the benefit of our investors.” Four men wearing overcoats and badges emerged late Monday from the Level Global offices in midtown Manhattan, pulling rolling suitcases behind them and carrying nylon backpacks. They declined to answer
reporters’ questions. In Stamford, security guards ordered journalists to leave the premises of the high-rise building housing the offices of Diamond Capital Management. Three men were seen leaving the building in an FBI vehicle on Monday evening. The FBI and other law enforcement agencies are investigating insider trading by hedge funds, mutual funds and investment bankers, the Wall Street Journal reported this weekend. The companies See FEDS, Page A3