Police Blotter

An Arizona man has been arrested for allegedly shooting and wounding a New Mexico State Police officer on I-40 near Laguna, authorities said Sunday, resulting in a traffic jam at least 22 miles long in the east-bound lanes.

The driver of the Kenworth, a 53 -year-old Fresno, California, man, was fatally injured in the collision and was pronounced dead on the scene by the Office of the Medical Investigator.

The incident was near the Desert Diamond Casino on the Tohono O’odham Nation near Why, Arizona.

On Monday the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Joint Opioid Reduction Task Force in Indian Country reported that in 2019 officials successfully led 14 operations across seven states

The New Hampshire State Police Cold Case Unit is hoping that someone can help identify a young murder victim who may have had ties to Black Mesa, Arizona.