Roswell Daily Record THE VOICE OF THE PECOS VALLEY
Vol. 124, No. 144 75¢ Daily / $1.25 Sunday
June 17, 2015
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RHS prank planned at home of former mayor’s ex-wife By Jared Tucker Multimedia Journalist
They stacked furniture, threw toilet paper, maple syrup, trash and manure through the hallways of Roswell High School and scribbled graffiti on the floors. Now police reports about the incident have been released that show the prank was planned at the home of the ex-wife of a former Roswell mayor. In another development, the Fifth Judicial District Attorney’s Office has declined to prosecute the case, according to a June 3 letter obtained by the Daily Record. According to the police report, 13 cellphones were seized during the investigation so police could execute
search warrants on them. “Several of the the phones contained text messages about the planning that took place at 17 Riverside,” the report states. The Daily Record searched the C h a ve s C o u n ty T a x A s se s so r’ s Eagleweb database and learned that home is owned by Miandra Jennings. Jennings was married to former Roswell Mayor Tom Jennings until they legally separated and later divorced in 2006, according to online court records. Tom Jennings referred the Daily Record to his daughter Jesse Jennings, who lives at that home, but she declined to comment. The report, which has student’s last names redacted, also confirms
statements by a Daily Record confidential source who said that students obtained a key to the building. On Adrianna’s (last name redacted) cellphone, there was a text message that stated, “Chey, I have the key,” the report states. The students had deleted thousands of text messages and photos that were recovered by police, according to the report, all of which were about the prank. One of the messages contained lists of supplies for other pranksters to bring. The report also refutes the claim that a second group of students showed up and took the prank to See PRANK, Page A2
Rainy days and Mondays
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According to police reports, the senior prank carried out at Roswell High School in May was planned at 17 Riverside Drive. The home, according to the Chaves County Tax Assessor’s Office, is owned by Miandra Jennings, who divorced former Roswell mayor Tom Jennings in 2006.
Man sentenced for firearm at 2014 graduation
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A young cyclist is drenched in a sudden thunderstorm that erupted Monday night near Poe Street and Washington Avenue.
Diabetes treatment now available
By Dylanne Petros Record Staff Writer
People who have diabetes or who are afraid they might get it now have a place to go in Roswell to learn more about the disease and receive treatment. La Casa Family Health Center received a grant from the University of New Mexico to take part in the Endo ECHO program,
which was started about 10 years ago, said Savitri Aguiar, primary care provider at La Casa. The project was started due to an outbreak of Hepatitis C in the state. Sanjeev Arora, medical director, created the project to make sure small towns throughout New Mexico could receive treatment. “It has been such a great success with Hepatitis C
that it has been replicated in so many other areas,” Aguiar said. The project has expanded to include diabetes and La Casa received a three-year grant from UNM to provide services in Chaves County. The project helps train primary care providers, nurse practitioners and other hospital staff on how to treat problems like Hepatits C and diabetes.
Feds to hold meetings on nuclear dump certification
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to hear from the public as it considers an application for recertification of the federal government’s troubled nuclear waste repository in southern New Mexico. The agency has scheduled two public meetings in Albuquerque on Wednesday. A similar meeting was held Tuesday in Carlsbad. The U.S. Department of Energy submitted its application for recertification of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant just weeks after
a drum of waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory ruptured in February 2014. Radiation escaped, parts of the underground repository were contaminated and it remains closed. The application is one of the keys to the reopening of the repository. The Energy Department didn’t address the radiation release in the application, but the EPA has spent months seeking answers to technical questions. Watchdog Don Hancock of the Southwest Research and Information Center
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credited the EPA for taking the position that the radiation leak should be considered. “EPA needs more information about the changes DOE needs to make in the repository as part of the recertification,” he told the Albuquerque Journal. Certification is part of a process that has been required every five years since the repository opened in 1999. However, this marks uncharted territory for EPA and the Waste IsoSee NUCLEAR, Page A2
Practitioners receive two hours of training every week so they can thoroughly treat patients, Aguiar said. “The patient will have a better quality of care,” he said. In addition to having primary care providers in Roswell, there are also community health workSee DIABETES, Page A3
A Roswell man who brought a gun to last year’s graduation ceremony at Roswell High School was sentenced Tuesday in federal court to 37 months in prison for being a felon in possession of firearms. Brandon Warford, 32, was also sentenced Tuesday morning in federal court in Las Cruces to two years of supervised release following his prison sentence. Warford was arrested on federal charges in Roswell on Aug. 5 under a criminal complaint charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition at the graduation ceremony. Roswell police said a witness saw Warford with the gun at the May 24, 2014, graduation ceremony and reported it to a security guard, who then contacted police. According to the criminal complaint, Roswell police confronted Warford about the firearm. Warford admitted pos-
Carlsbad man ordered to repay VA 13K
A Carlsbad man has See SENTENCES, Page A2
‘Razing’ the roof
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An unidentified worker peeks over the roof at the equipment parked below behind City Hall Tuesday. Work on a new roof for the building is expected to be completed Friday thus ending a four-week construction project. While the old adage says that “you can’t fight City Hall” apparently you can at least “raze the roof.”
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• Jessica Acevedo • Berrier Dale Byrom • Charles Edwin Burrows
Warford sessing the firearm during the graduation ceremony, although he was prohibited from possessing firearms or ammunition because of prior felony convictions for burglary in 2002 and being a felon in possession of a firearm in 2008. Warford was indicted on the federal charge on Oct. 16. He pleaded guilty to the federal indictment on Jan. 7, without the benefit of a plea agreement.
• Joe Castelo • Joe G. Gutierres, Jr. • Norma Colleen Henderson
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