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A 34-year-old New Mexico man is caught red-handed living with a 13-year-old girl. The teen ran away from her albuquerque home about a week ago. The...
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A 34-year-old New Mexico man is caught red-handed living with a 13-year-old girl. The teen ran away from her albuquerque home about a week ago. The man is now in jail facing several charges -- including rape. Jeff maher spoke exclusively with the man's parents -- who blame the teen for what happened. Jeff. The parents of carlos nuanez say they would always see their son bring girls to their meadowlake home -- but they tell us the girls alwaysppeared to be over the age of 18, including the most recent one -- who turned out to be a 13- year-old runaway. "he brings girls all the time, and i can't ask everybody, are you 18 or not, you know?" Santiago and yolanda nuanez are not saying their 34-year-old son carlos is innocent -- but they say the young girl he was caught with last night at their house could have saved herself by simply speaking up. "i know he got into a mess, but she came here on her own free will" "i feel bad, but she should have said something, if she would have told me she was 13, i would have called her parents and i don't even have their phone number" The valencia county sheriff says nuanez and the teen met on myspace in july. About a week ago she ran away from home. The sheriff says her father came across messages between his daughter and nuanez, and went to the sheriff's office yesterday with pictures of nuanez. One of the deputies recognized him -- they went to his parents house, and found both nuanez and the girl. He facing several charges, including seven counts of rape. Did you know they were having sex? No, he's in his room and i can't go in there" Nuanez's father says the girl ran away from home because her father beat her. "she was staying here by herself, nobody forced her to stay here, and i thought she was 18, he's 34, so i didn't want to interfere, i can't ask everybody who comes here - are you 18? If you're not 18 you're not welcome" Carlos nuanez has a long rap sheet, his father tells us he was also on probation. The girl is back at home with her family in albuquerque. Back to you. The.
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A homeowner in the east mountains has posted a warning on her door for anyone thinking about breaking into her place. She's fired up over the rash ...
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A homeowner in the east mountains has posted a warning on her door for anyone thinking about breaking into her place. She's fired up over the rash of home burglaries and is now working on ways to stop them. Joe vigil is here with our top story. This is the note a burglar would see at one resident's home. The woman who put it up says it's no joke. Breaking into debbie battaglino's east mountain house might be the last home a burglar wants to hit. Asked her to read the note she put up on her door. "beware. Due to the recent break-ins we don not answer the door. If you are a home invader, please leave a contact number for someone to come pick up your body parts." So how serious is she about that threat? "i have a baseball bat a golf club, other assorted incendiary weapons of mass destruction ...i'm not going to be a victim. I am not going to be a victim." Residents tell us burglars just hit three more homes tuesday. 2 in the tablazon subdivision and one home in the sierra vista south area. From january to june -- deputies say burglars hit 70 homes throughout the east mountains. From june to now one hundred homes. That's why battagilino is trying to get organized. Instead of using a little notebook to keep track of suspicious vehicles and people...she wants to get a webpage going where people can report suspicious activity for everyone to see. "where people can coordinate information, not point fingers and accuse people. Just say i saw a vehicle i'm not familiar with, a day, time date tag number." She also hopes law enforcement will share information on the webpage about crime... To see if patterns come up. She hopes that will help curb the break-ins instead of having to take drastic action herself. Residents tell me those break-ins that just happened --happened on trash day. And some wonder if thieves are looking for homes where trash bins sit out all day -- giving the appearance that no one is home. Battaglino actually drives around a puts trash bins away for people.
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it's an option on the table for state lawmakers when they meet in january -- looking for ways to tackle a huge shortfall in state revenues. stuart ...
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it's an option on the table for state lawmakers when they meet in january -- looking for ways to tackle a huge shortfall in state revenues. stuart dyson is live at the capitol where lawmakers on a powerful committee were talking tortillas and taxes today. we got rid of the gross receipts -- or sales tax -- on tortilla's and other groceries back in 2005. it was one of the most popular tax cuts ever. but bringing it back could haul in a couple hundred million dollars for the state. now we're talking real money. the politically correct term is revenue enhancement -- but you and i would call it a tax increase. bringing back the sales tax on groceries would mean an estimated 228-million dollars for the state in the next budget year.
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06:16 pm still -- a grocery x is a regressive tax -- hitting poor people the hardest since the spend a higher percentage of their income on food. lawmakers on the powerful tax and revenue committee say there's not much appetite for taxing groceries. "a lot of these businesses are just hanging on by a string, and individuals are as well. and we add a greater tax burden on those folks, we're gonna cut that string, and they won't be hanging on anymore." "as regressive as it is, it's the least painful tax to collect. you pay it a penny at a time when you have to pay property tax, and you have two payments. you have to come up with significant dollars." "before we consider any enhancements at all, we need to make sure that we're doing what we're doing efficiently now, and we know that that's not the case." some lawmakers say the grocery tax is not nearly as evil as it sounds -- because most of the poor are on food stamps -- and wouldn't be paying the tax anyway. it is hard to see
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06:17 pm this one getting very far in the 30- day legislative session. 2010 is an election year -- it's a popular tax cut -- bringing it back in january might have a powerful payback in november. live at the capitol, stuart dyson, ewn4.//
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There is no relief in sight for the overcrowded Valencia County jail. Voters have shot down a tax extension, which would have been used to fund ex...
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There is no relief in sight for the overcrowded Valencia County jail. Voters have shot down a tax extension, which would have been used to fund expansions at the facility. Now officials are considering raiding the budgets of other county services.
The Valencia County jail is so full that inmates are stacked three bunks high. The jail has to pay other facilities as far away as Grants and Santa Fe to house overflow inmates.
"I think that the expansion of the jail is going to have to occur, and the funds are going to have to come from some source, said Valencia County Commission Chairman Pedro Rael.
The funds would have come from the renewal of an eighth-of-a-cent gross receipts tax. But it failed on the ballot nearly two-to-one.
"It wouldn't have impacted them any different than what's going on right now, said Kenneth Griego, Valencia Countys business manager.
County officials say they still need to find nearly $5.5 million to expand the jail and relieve overcrowding. So, come the start of the next fiscal year in 2010 cuts will have to be made countywide.
"The realization that we have is that it's going to cost us a lot more later on, said Griego.
The county will look at the 2010 general fund for cuts. It wont be easy, considering Valencia County is already expecting a 5-7 percent shortfall.
First on the chopping block are county services.
"We have an animal control shelter. We have about 259 employees in a number of departments, code enforcement. We have the sheriff's office, said Rael.
As a last resort, the county will consider cutting employee pay. If thats not enough, jobs could follow.
County officials say they may try to bring back the gross receipts tax, but they have to wait a year to do so. So its possible voters could see it on a ballot a year from now.
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New Mexicans may have to start using passports to fly as of January 1st.
A federal mandate says drivers licenses wont be accepted as identificatio...
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New Mexicans may have to start using passports to fly as of January 1st.
A federal mandate says drivers licenses wont be accepted as identification to fly in 2010 if the license doesnt meet federal standards. New Mexico is among 36 states that dont meet requirements because it allows drivers licenses to be issued to foreign nationals.
Now the state is racing against time to find a solution for thousands of travelers.
Eyewitness News 4s Valarie Castro reports.
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