Conviction upheld for pediatrician convicted of child porn possession Staff Reports
NN police pronounce SUV driver dead By Bernie Dotson Sun Correspondent
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L BUQU ERQU E – At tor ney Genera l He c t or B a ld e r a s announced that pediatrician Juan Torres Santos, who was found guilty of one count of Sexual Exploitation of Children in October 2015, lost his appeal to the New Mexico Court of Appeals June 22. Torres Santos was previously a licensed pediatrician in Pennsylvania and in Texas, and was working on his application for a medical license in New Mexico at the time of his arrest. Torres Santos appealed his conviction claiming there was not sufficient evidence he intentionally possessed child pornography and that the district court should not have allowed the Office of the Attorney General to show the jury evidence of the child pornography. T he C ou r t of A pp e a l s ag reed w it h t he Of f ice of
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Juan Torres Santos t h e A t t o r n e y G e n e r a l ’s Cr iminal Appeals Div ision a nd upheld Tor res Sa ntos’ conv iction. “I applaud the Office of the Attorney General Special Investigations Division, ICAC Unit, who assisted with the investigation, the Special Prosecutions Division who successfully prosecuted, and the Criminal Appeals Division with whom the Court of Appeals agreed by affirming Mr. Santos Torres’ conviction,” Balderas said. “This case demonstrates there is no higher priority for my office than the protection of our innocent children in New Mexico.”
n investigation continues into a Toyota 4Runner that overturned June 18 at mile-marker 10 and not far from New Mexico 264, according to
a Navajo Nation police report. Sgt. Shane Bennet recorded that the Toyota SUV was traveling eastbound and rolled over. A witness at the scene said he heard a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed, telling Bennett that “he heard a loud crash.”
Three females approached the crash scene and one said that she was in the vehicle earlier in Gallup. Bennett’s report stated that fire personnel attempted to get the driver out of the vehicle, but stopped due to the fact that the driver was dead.
Commercial vehicle crash results in fatality Staff Reports
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RANTS – New Mexico State Police were called to investigate a single commercial motor vehicle crash on I-40 at mile post 87, at 3:49 am on June 20. The commercial motor vehicle left the roadway, entered
the median and overturned. The driver of the vehicle, Mr. John Valdez, 56, of Desert Hot Springs, Calif. was not wearing his seat belt, and sustained fatal injuries, he was pronounced deceased at the scene. The passenger of the vehicle Mr. Abdelnebi Basyouni, 59, of
Fontana, Calif. was asleep in the cab section of the vehicle, he sustained injuries during the crash and was transported to University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque, NM. This vehicle crash is still under investigation, and no additional information is available at this time.
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