The Santa Fe New Mexican, June 20, 2013

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Man enters guilty plea in fake Indian jewelry case 60-year-old who featured work at Santa Fe art shows gets 30 months probation

‘Sopranos’ star dies at 51 James Gandolfini, a three-time Emmy Award winner who portrayed the troubled mob boss on the HBO series The Sopranos, died Wednesday while on holiday in Rome, according to representatives. PAge A-2

By Nico Roesler The New Mexican

A California man who showcased handmade jewelry at several Santa Fe art shows pleaded guilty Wednesday to

that he offered for sale and sold jewelry that he falsely represented was produced by an Indian, in violation of the federal Indian Arts and Crafts Act. Authorities say Alvarez registered as an exhibitor at the Native Treasures Indian Art Show in Santa Fe in 2010 and identified himself as “Andrew Redhorse Alvarez” and as a “Colville/Apache” Indian, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

fraudulently representing himself as an Indian artist and illegally selling goods advertised as Indian art. Andrew Gene Alvarez, 60, of Wofford Heights, Calif., received a 30-month sentence to probation followed by one year of supervised release, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Albuquerque. Alvarez, who showcased his work at the 2011 Native Treasures show at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center, was indicted in 2012 on a charge

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Andrew Gene Alvarez

Pleaded guilty to fraudulently representing himself as an Indian artist and illegally selling goods advertised as Indian art.

Depp says he sought to use Tonto role to break clichés

64TH ANNUAL RODEO DE SANTA FE RIDING TOUGH ON DAY 1

By Tom Sharpe The New Mexican

Johnny Depp says he tried to turn the clichés about Native Americans on their heads with his ironic portrayal of Tonto in the new film The Lone Ranger. “My hope is to try to almost in a weird way embrace the cliché so it’s recognized by people who have been conditioned to … how the Native American has been represented in film,” he said at a Wednesday news conference at Bishop’s Lodge Resort & Spa. “So it was kind of a trick in a weird way to suck them in and then switch them around and take them on a different path.” Depp credited the late Marlon Brando, “my

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State remains tight-lipped on Franco’s trip

ABOVE: Kyle Brennecke of Grain Valley, Mo., competes in the barebackriding event Wednesday during the opening day of the 64th annual Rodeo de Santa Fe. For more photos of the rodeo, visit http://tinyurl.com/ n9y4mt8.

By Steve Terrell The New Mexican

RIGHT: Dylan Vick Hice, 21, of California prepares for the bull-riding event Wednesday. The rodeo will be held nightly through Saturday, rain or shine, with free parking. Tickets start at $17 for adult general admission and $10 for children under 10 and seniors older than 65. Tickets can be purchased by phone at 9881234, online at ticketssantafe.org and in person at the rodeo grounds and the Lensic box office.

There’s a good reason Gov. Susana Martinez’s administration hasn’t released receipts for lodging and food expenses related to a 2011 Louisiana alligator-hunting trip by Martinez’s husband, Chuck Franco, and two New Mexico State Police officers: There aren’t any such receipts for outof-state expenditures during that trip. According to a spokesman for the governor, Franco and the officers assigned to guard him were “privately hosted, and security stayed where the first gentleman stayed and meals were included. It was a personal hunting trip and the hosts have no business with state government, nor are they involved in state politics.”

PHOTOS BY JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

INSIde u Corona’s Muncy earns 80 points in saddle-bronc event for lead. SPORTS, B-1

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Conflict builds over Valles Caldera

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Game Commission opposes bill to shift management, but others support move

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‘Chapter Two’

Today

Santa Fe Playhouse presents Neil Simon’s comedy, 7:30 p.m., 142 E. De Vargas St., $10 special pricing, santafeplayhouse.org, 9884262, Thursdays-Saturdays through June.

Sunny, breezy. High 93, low 55. PAge A-12

Obituaries Mitzi Lee Panzer, 78, Santa Fe, June 18 PAge A-10

Index

Senators eye border security Key senators brokered a tentative deal to strengthen border security provisions in a compromise immigration bill. PAge A-4

Calendar A-2

Classifieds B-6

Comics B-12

Lotteries A-2

By Staci Matlock The New Mexican

The New Mexico State Game Commission voted unanimously in May to oppose a bill that would transfer management of a popular national preserve in the Jemez Mountains to the National Park Service. But the item was not officially on the

Opinions A-11

Police notes A-10

Editor: Rob Dean, 986-3033, rdean@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Carlos A. López, clopez@sfnewmexican.com

agenda for the public meeting and was added toward the end of the meeting in an emergency move. The bill, approved as amended by a U.S. Senate committee on Tuesday, would shift management of the 88,900-acre Valles Caldera National Preserve from

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Sports B-1

Time Out A-8

An aerial view of the Valles Caldera Preserve in August 2011, showing damage from the Las Conchas Fire in the Jemez Mountains. NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO

Scoop A-9

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