Santa Fe New Mexican, April 6, 2014

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A colorful kitchen accent inside Garrett ‘Castle’ Home, inside

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Trinity ‘downwinders’ protest at nuclear testing site Local News, C-1

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UConn, Kentucky head to NCAA final

In life, mental illness kept James Boyd alone and faceless; in death, by police bullets, he has become a cause

A screenshot of a photo from Boyd’s MySpace page, registered under the monkier Abba Mobus Abaddon, taken a few days before his death.

Role players key in Connecticut’s victory over Florida; Kentucky upsets Wisconsin. SPORTS, D-1

A ‘disposable’ life

Records runaround in Governor’s Office Martinez aides dodge more requests for public records. ROUNDHOUSE ROUNDUP, B-1

SWAIA SHAKE-UP

Artists call loss of leader a blow to market Dozens threaten to pull out of summer event By Uriel J. Garcia The New Mexican

The resignation of John Torres Nez earlier this week as chief operating officer of the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, the group that organizes the annual Santa Fe Indian Market, has caused an uproar on social media, with dozens of Native American artists demanding answers and calling for his return. John Torres Though Torres Nez Nez has said tantalizingly little about his reasons for leaving, and the association’s board members have been mum on details, some artists are threatening to cut off donations to SWAIA. A few are considering not participating in Indian Market, one of Santa Fe’s premier

Destiny Cross, 14, left, Kindra Glanders, center, and Anastasia Volek, right, stand near the spot where James Boyd was shot on the foothills of Sandia Mountains. Dozens gathered for a sunset vigil Wednesday to remember Boyd. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

By Patrick Malone and Daniel J. Chacón The New Mexican

ALBUQUERQUE rom his first breath to his last, James Boyd lived a turbulent life. Physical and sexual abuse marred his youth, spent shuttling between his divorced, alcoholic parents and foster homes. He had barely crested into adulthood when a long prison term accelerated his struggles with mental illness. Diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, he wrestled with delusions of government conspiracies. He had countless scrapes with the

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Please see SWAIA, Page A-6

Afghan voters brave threats to cast ballots By Joshua Partlow and Kevin Sieff The Washington Post

KABUL, Afghanistan — They huddled in the rain under plastic sheeting. They ignored death threats and rattling firefights. After weeks of violence and tension, Afghan men and women turned out in larger numbers than expected Saturday to choose a new president to lead them into the post-American era in Afghanistan. Conducted under armed guard, the country’s third presidential election since the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001 unfolded without the largescale attacks or major disruptions that many Afghans had feared. As the process now moves to a vote count

Please see AFGHAN, Page A-6

Index

Calendar A-2

Classifieds E-7

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Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 476-1200. Wooden Menagerie: Made in New Mexico, early 20th-century carvings, reception 1-4 p.m., through Feb. 15, 2015.

Obituaries

Today Breezy with partial sunshine. High 57, low 33. PAGE D-6

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Lotteries A-2

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were summoned to the foothills on a report of a suspicious person possibly camping illegally. An ensuing standoff that ended in Boyd’s death brought the 38-year-old the type of notoriety that he strove to avoid while he was alive. In death, the enigmatic loner who let relatively few people into his life has become an iconic figure. His killing has sparked protests against the Albuquerque Police Department, which has fatally shot 23 people since 2010, including at least four others with histories of mental illness or post-traumatic stress disorder. It also has raised questions about how

Please see BOYD, Page A-4

Heroin use spikes across U.S.

Pasapick

Johnny B. Anaya, April 3 Max W. Coll, II, March 27 Command Sgt. Maj. Ramondo “Ray” Gonzales, March 30 Dolorine Honnel-Jorgensen, 66, Placitas, N.M., April 2 Ismael“Ish”Lovato, 63, March 28 Dr. Joseph M. Magrath, 85, Santa Fe, April 1 Dorothy T. Sprague, 100, Santa Fe, March 30

law. For decades, beginning in his mid-teens, he was repeatedly jailed and confined in the state mental hospital. In between, he was just another faceless, homeless man roaming the streets of Albuquerque. But there was one place he found peace, say the few who knew him. That was in a rugged patch of earth and rock in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains. It was there that he could avoid everyday run-ins with people and police that could turn volatile. It was there that he could buffer himself from the rest of society, and stay clear of conflicts that could return him to jail or a mental institution. That all changed on March 16, when police

Opinions B-1

Shift from prescription pills to cheaper drug among addicts fueling epidemic, experts say

45 percent

By Amy Forliti, Dan Sewell and Nigel Duara

669,000

The Associated Press

On a beautiful Sunday last October, Detective Dan Douglas stood in a suburban Minnesota home and looked down at a lifeless 20-year-old — a needle mark in his arm, a syringe in his pocket. It didn’t take long for Douglas to realize that the man, fresh out of treatment, was his second heroin overdose that day. “You just drive away and go, ‘Well, here we go again,’ ” says the veteran cop. In Butler County, Ohio, heroin overdose calls are so common that the longtime EMS coordinator likens the situation to “coming in and eating breakfast — you just kind of expect it to occur.” A local rehab facility has a six-month wait. One school recently referred

Real Estate E-1

Sports D-1

Estimated increase in heroin overdose death between 2006 and 2010 in the U.S.

Estimated number of heroin users in 2012, with the greatest increases among those 18 to 25.

4.7 percent Lifetime heroin rate in New Mexico in 2011 — higher than the U.S. rate of 2.9 percent.

Time Out/crossword C-8

BREAKING NEWS AT WWW.SANTAFENEWMEXICAN.COM

an 11-year-old boy who was shooting up intravenously. Sheriff Richard Jones has seen crack, methamphetamine and pills plague his southwestern Ohio community but calls heroin a bigger

Please see HEROIN, Page A-7

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