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Yeah some people are just hard wired for crime regardless of what kind of environment they grow up in.
Poverty certain provides an incentive to commit crime. The mentality of "get money any way you can, even if it's illegal". Broken homes will definitely play a factor. If you come from a home where there's alot of instability and violence, there is a chance you might end up going things that violent criminals do. And somerthing more. Many violent criminals learned what they learned from gangs. The gang becomes the family substitute.
2 charged in slaying at NE ABQ apartment
By Elise Kaplan / Journal Staff Writer
Updated: Friday, September 27th, 2019 at 10:46am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Homicide detectives have arrested two people in connection with the slaying of a
29-year-old man at a Northeast Albuquerque apartment complex last Friday night.
Johnathan A. Griego, 24, is charged with an open count of murder. His girlfriend, 25-year-old Dominique
Rodriguez, is charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
The couple was booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center late Thursday.
Police say Griego shot and killed Harvey Aragon Jr. during a domestic dispute on Sept. 20 at the Arioso
Apartments on Montgomery near Pennsylvania. According to a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court,
Aragon has two children with Rodriguez and was trying to retrieve them from her apartment complex.
It was one of three fatal shootings APD investigated that night, and one of 10 homicides in Albuquerque over
a two-week period.
Journal city editor Martin Salazar contributed to this report.
SWAT team shoots, kills suspect
By Elise Kaplan And Martin Salazar / Journal Staff Writers
Updated: Monday, October 14th, 2019 at 9:53pm
"The Albuquerque Police Department said its SWAT team shot and killed an armed man after it responded to a domestic disturbance in an apartment a couple of blocks north of East Central early Monday.
At a preliminary media briefing outside the crime scene, APD chief of staff John Ross said the SWAT team decided to enter the apartment, in the 400 block of Tennessee NE, and found the suspect armed with a gun."
Judge delays sentencing for Nehemiah Griego
By Katy Barnitz / Journal Staff Writer
Updated: Tuesday, October 15th, 2019 at 11:31pm
"An Albuquerque judge spent hours Tuesday hearing arguments over how much prison time – if any – Nehemiah Griego should face for killing five members of his family in 2013.
State District Judge Alisa Hart is tasked with handing down a sentence of up to 120 years to the now-22-year-old convicted of fatally shooting his parents, Greg and Sarah Griego, and three siblings, Zephaniah, 9, Jael, 5, and Angelina, 2. As the all-day hearing concluded well after 5 p.m., Hart said she will issue her decision at a later date.
Annette Verreault, Nehemiah Griego's sister, is comforted by friends after Nehemiah Griego's sentencing hearing Tuesday.
Annette Verreault, Nehemiah Griego’s sister, is comforted by friends after Nehemiah Griego’s sentencing hearing Tuesday.
In a statement to the court, Griego said he is remorseful and apologized to his older sisters, three of whom spoke Tuesday on behalf of the prosecution. He also thanked individually two aunts and two uncles who have continued to visit him regularly while he’s been in custody and who had, he said, “shown me what forgiveness is” when he’d expected retaliation and abandonment."
"Just don't hang around gang members, or things like that, and you'll be fine."
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Albuquerque police say an armed robbery turned deadly late Friday when a 21-year-old bystander’s vehicle was sprayed with bullets at a Northeast Heights park — a round striking her before she crashed into a neighboring home.
Ex-firefighter charged in 2009 rape backlog case
By Matthew Reisen / Journal Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019
Quote:
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Deputies arrested a former Bernalillo County firefighter Wednesday after his DNA matched a 2009 rape case on the backlog.
Celso Montaño, 44, is charged with kidnapping and criminal sexual penetration in the May 2009 rape of a woman in the South Valley.
This isn’t the first time he has faced such accusations. In 2012 Montaño was charged with multiple counts of kidnapping, rape and assault in separate attacks on four women over a three-month stretch.
As a professor once observed, "The plural of 'anecdote' is 'data.'"
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