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Man acquitted of murder faces probation in deal Will plea to involuntary manslaughter in stabbing By Nico Roesler
The New Mexican
Adrian Gonzales, acquitted of murder last month in the 2011 stabbing death of Victoriano Moises ByrneGonzales at a Pojoaque mobile home park, will plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter and aggravated battery
under a deal with prosecutors that calls for a sentence of less than two years of probation. Gonzales, 31, no relation to the victim, was accused of stabbing the 21-year-old in the throat after the victim and a friend tried to break up a fight between Gonzales and his
girlfriend at the Butterfly Springs Mobile Home Park on Dec. 2, 2011. Byrne-Gonzales died at the scene. His friend, Santiago Cordova, was stabbed in Adrian the back by Gonzales, Gonzales who fled to Albuquerque, where he was later arrested. A grand jury indicted Gonzales on
charges of first-degree murder, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and battery of a household member. After a trial in March, a Santa Fe County jury found Gonzales not guilty of first-degree murder, second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter. The jury also found Gonzales not guilty on the charge of battery against his girlfriend. However, the jury was unable to
reach a verdict on charges of involuntary manslaughter in Byrne-Gonzales’ death and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon in Cordova’s stabbing. Gonzales’ defense was that he acted in self-defense. His lawyers labeled Byrne-Gonzales and Cordova “bullies” who “took the law into their own hands.”
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‘The TerrOr Is Over’ Surviving Boston bombing suspect captured, wounded after city lockdown By Eileen Sullivan and Jay Lindsay
The Associated Press
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A crowd of people including the media gathers around a police officer Friday, following the arrest of a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings in Watertown, Mass. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured after a manhunt that shut down the Boston area. MATT ROURKE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Suspected bombers were refugees from brutal conflict By Peter Finn, Carol D. Leonnig and Will Englund
The Washington Post
With their baseball hats and sauntering gaits, they appeared to friends and neighbors like ordinary American boys. But the Boston bombings suspects were refugees from another world — the blood, rubble and dirty wars of the Russian Caucasus.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was a southpaw heavyweight boxer who represented New England in the National Golden Gloves and talked about competing on behalf of the United States. His tangle-haired, 19-year-old brother, Dzhokhar, was a skateboarder who listened to rap and seemed easygoing to other kids in his Cambridge, Mass., neighborhood. Tamerlan is now dead, killed in a
shootout with police. Hidden behind the brothers’ former lives in Massachusetts is a biography containing old resentments that appear to have mutated into radical Islamic violence. The brothers who are alleged to have planted bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday reached the United States in 2002 after
AG accuses banks of ‘slamming’ credit-card customers with fees By Tom Sharpe
The New Mexican
Attorney General Gary King is accusing eight of the nation’s largest banks of deceptive marketing of protection plans for credit-card holders — a practice known as “slamming.” Eight separate civil lawsuits filed in state District Court this week say the banks violated the New Mexico Unfair Practices Act by charging credit-card customers about $100 a year for “ancillary products” that often were useless to them. “This process is referred to as ‘slamming,’ ” the complaints state. “[The banks] are in a position to slam this customer because, unlike a typical marketer or seller, [the banks] are
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already the consumer’s credit card company and already have his or her credit card number(s) on file.” The complaints say telemarketers Gary call credit-card cusKing tomers ostensibly to thank them and remind them of benefits they already have, then “speed through, skip altogether or alter the text of the information they are required to provide … to make these disclosures sound like confusing legalese. …
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Japanese Cultural Festival Santa Fe Japanese Intercultural Network presents its annual matsuri with a vintage kimono exhibit (955-6200), fashion show, sale of crafts and food, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 201 W. Marcy St., $3, children ages 12 and under no charge, proceeds benefit Japan Aid of Santa Fe recovery relief fund, santafejin.org.
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DENVER — Dust blown in from the Southwest settled on snow over many of Colorado’s mountains during this week’s storm and will eventually affect how fast the snowpack melts and possibly how much water the state can hold onto. Researchers say the dust kicked up from Arizona, New Mexico and Utah by southwesterly winds fell in Steamboat Springs, Summit County, Vail, Aspen and the San Juan mountains. Dust was also scattered in the snow that fell along the Front Range, but it’s likely that dust could have been carried by southeasterly winds from other areas, too, including parched southeastern Colorado, the San Luis Valley and the Arkansas River Basin, state climatologist Nolan Doesken said. Jeffrey Deems, a research scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, said dust on top of snow can absorb up
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ATERTOWN, Mass. — A Massachusetts college student wanted in the Boston Marathon bombing was captured hiding out in a boat parked in a backyard Friday and his older brother lay dead in a furious 24-hour drama that transfixed the nation and paralyzed the Boston area with fear. The bloody endgame came four days after the bombing and just a day after the FBI released surveillancecamera images of two young men suspected of planting the pressurecooker explosives that ripped through the crowd at the marathon finish line, killing three people and wounding more than 180. The two men were identified by authorities and relatives as ethnic Chechens from southern Russia who had been in the U.S. for about a decade and were believed to be living in Cambridge, Mass. But investigators gave no details on the motive for the bombing. Early Friday morning, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a ferocious gun battle and car chase during which he and his younger brother hurled explosives at police from a stolen car, authorities said. The younger brother managed to escape.
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