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Tuesday night’s police search through Bovina for a fleeing subject may have been much ado over very little, according to Bovina Police Chief Leon Sadler. “We had a loud noise call with a bunch of teenagers and in the course of identifying them, one subject didn’t have any identification whatsoever,” Sadler said. “He took off running from us. Based on partial information we were able to get at the time, I have today (Wednesday) learned he is from Clovis and 17.” Sadler said the juvenile also has outstanding warrants in Clovis... Full story
When Col. Robert Yates leaves Cannon Air Force Base for his new post in Virginia, he’ll carry with him a new title: “brigadier general (select).” Yates’ name was included on the list of promotions to one-star general released Tuesday morning by the Air Force, and while he won’t get to replace the eagle on his lapels with a star for at least a year and a half, Yates said the promotion will help him do his work at Langley Air Force Base more effectively. “Rank is important,” Yates said. “Right now I am slated to become speci...
Clovis police officer Robert Denney wades through mid-afternoon traffic on Prince Street on Tuesday as part of a operation to ticket motorists for blocking intersections. CNJ staff photo: Rick White. Even with uniformed police officers in full view Thursday afternoon, motorists continued to speed, run red lights, and block the intersection of Commerce Way and Prince Street, according to Lt. Ron Hutchinson of the Clovis Police Department The result — 99 citations and one arrest in a single four-hour period. “We get lots and... Full story
Accountant Teresa Davey didn’t know what to expect 15 years ago when she married an Air Force pilot. “I thought I knew what I was getting into, but I grew up where nobody in my family moved away,” Davey said. “I think the biggest struggle is just the moving, having to pick up every two to three years and move again and find a place to live and make new friends. But at the same time I don’t know if I would trade any of the friends I’ve made for anything.” Davey is married to Maj. Pete Davey, a member of Cannon’s 522n...
Carla Givens understands the stresses the Air Force can place on a marriage. She was an Air Force officer before her husband, Lt. Col. Rob Givens, who is now commander of the 35th Fighter Squadron in Kunsan, South Korea. Carla Givens, a civil engineer by profession, now works as the solid waste manager at Cannon Air Force Base. While she is separated from her husband while he’s deployed to Korea, her original reason for leaving the Air Force was to make it possible to live in the same location. “We met in Korea while he was...
Ellen Saccoia-Smith, family and work life consultant at the Family Support Center at Cannon Air Force Base and a military spouse, talks about the challenges military spouses face during an interview at the base in January. (Photo by Eric Kluth) CANNON AIR FORCE BASE — Ellen Saccoia-Smith’s first military move was the hardest. She followed her husband to Misawa Air base in Japan in 1997. “We had been stationed in New York for nine years and I had been able to finish my bachelor’s and my master’s degrees. Now, I have to reinven...
Reporter's Notebook The 82nd Airborne Division Association, which represents all airborne soldiers including those who trained to fly gliders at the old Fort Sumner Army Air Base and the Clovis Army Air Base, is holding its 58th annual convention from Aug. 18-24 in Reno, Nev. “I always try to attend the Airborne convention; it’s a lot of fun,” said Albuquerque’s Roger Knight, a retired colonel and Vietnam veteran who is New Mexico’s chapter chairman. “I always encourage people to come for the camaraderie, to tell their stori...
About 7:30 p.m. Feb. 7, police stopped a car driving erratically near the corner of Seventh and Hull streets. The 54-year-old driver failed field sobriety tests and was arrested on charges of improper turning, open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle, and driving while intoxicated, first offense. A subsequent breath alcohol test returned results of 0.12 and 0.13. • • • About 8 a.m. Monday, officers responded to the 1200 block of Mora regarding a report that someone had shot and hit a residence. A 37-year-old woman told...
Cops and Courts An 18-year-old Clovis man was arrested Tuesday after leading three law enforcement agencies on a chase that ended with the man crashing his car. Officials said the chase exceeded 70 mph and the man’s two stepchildren were inside the car. No one was seriously injured, officials said. Complaints against Sergio Silguero, 18, include aggravated fleeing from a police officer, aggravated driving while intoxicated, child abuse, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon upon a police officer, no child restraints, r... Full story
Communications problems which complicated an emergency medical run on Feb. 2 could have implications for any future disaster, members of the exercise design subcommittee of the Curry County Local Emergency Planning Committee noted Friday. Meeting to plan the county’s next disaster training drill, members discussed the Feb. 2 incident that didn’t go according to plan. On that day, a train crew member was taken to Plains Regional Medical Center after inhaling denatured alcohol mist seeping from a train stopped 10 miles wes... Full story
During most weekdays, Randy Billingsley wears the uniform of an Air Force master sergeant, working with the 27th Medical Group at Cannon Air Force Base. However, on Wednesday nights and Sundays, Billingsley commutes about an hour northwest of Clovis where he serves as the part-time pastor of Forrest Community Church, a small congregation with ties to the Southern Baptist Convention. Billingsley said he’s been attending church all his life, but even though his father became a Southern Baptist pastor when he was 15, he never c...
CANNON AIR FORCE BASE — Some people know pain and suffering. As a Marine who lost an eye and arm while leading his men in combat during the Vietnam War, Clebe McClary said he has more cause than many others to speak of his own pain. “I didn’t get drafted, I didn’t have to join the Marine Corps. I was a college coach who saw the American flag being burned and went down to sign up,” McClary told an audience assembled Wednesday for the National Prayer Luncheon at Cannon. McClary told his audience that, as a Marine lieutenan...
Electricity went out Thursday at two Clovis locations and one in Muleshoe, cutting power to an unknown number of customers. Xcel Energy spokesman Bill Crenshaw said Thursday evening utility repair crews hadn’t determined the cause of the outages. Crenshaw said the Clovis outages began about 6 p.m. and an outage at the 100 block of Cravey Street on the west of Clovis appeared to have been caused by a power transformer failure. A second outage near Chaparral Country Club stretched south along Axtell and Gidding streets and m...
Vietnam veteran Rafael Aragon receives a signed copy Thursday of a book by retired Marine Clebe McClary outlining his combat injuries. CNJ staff photo: Darrell Todd Maurina. CANNON AIR FORCE BASE — Some people know pain and suffering. As a Marine who lost an eye and arm while leading his men in combat during the Vietnam War, Clebe McClary said he has more cause than many others to speak of his own pain. “I didn’t get drafted, I didn’t have to join the Marine Corps. I was a college coach who saw the American flag being b...
Bottles of Driveway Heat ice melter line the shelf at the entrance of Triangle Ace Home Center as employee Sasha Guhrke, 16, works the register Wednesday at the store. CNJ staff photo: Eric Kluth. When local school officials heard Wednesday afternoon that their students could face 3 inches of snow by morning and another inch of accumulation during the day on Thursday, they prepared to get up very early in the morning. “We usually get up about 3:30 a.m. and look outside to see what the weather conditions are at the time and ch...
Windley: Purchased shotgun then took own life. Co-workers and friends expressed shock and disbelief Monday, following the apparent suicide of Clovis Community College instructor William H. Windley Jr. Police said Windley, 32, of Portales, purchased a gun on Friday afternoon at the Beaulieu Brothers Pawn City store in Clovis, then shot himself in the head in front of about 10 customers and employees. Officials at both Clovis Community College, where Windley taught, and Eastern New Mexico University, where he attended school,...
The co-owner of Beaulieu Brothers Pawn City said Tuesday many employees were still upset after the Friday death of William H. Windley Jr., who witnesses said shot himself in the store. “In 28 years of running this store, we’ve never had any kind of problem like this,” Al Beaulieu said. “It really shook everyone up; I have a few employees who still haven’t shown up for work yet.” Beaulieu said the store has armed guards and other procedures in place to prevent people from misusing firearms. Beaulieu said Windley circumvente...
Alesia M. Thomas, 22, showed little emotion Tuesday afternoon as she replied in a soft voice to a long list of questions by 9th Judicial District Judge Joe Parker, confirming she understood the terms of a plea bargain. The agreement will put her in state prison for at least 12 years in connection with the December 2002 death of her 15-month-old son. Thomas entered an Alford plea — maintaining her innocence while admitting sufficient evidence exists to convict — to a charge of child abuse resulting in death and could face a p...
Clovis police have released the name of the man shot early Sunday morning at the Prince Lounge, but say they have no suspects in custody. Detective Keith Farkas said witnesses told police that Ricardo Urquizo, 21, of Clovis, was shot once in the abdomen by a bullet fired from a red Dodge Neon that sped out of the Prince Lounge parking lot about 1:40 a.m. Sunday. Police put out a be-on-the-lookout order for the car but haven’t found it, Farkas said. Urquizo was taken to Plains Regional Medical Center and airlifted to an u...
The lawyer for the man accused of shooting a Clovis police officer in December 2002 asked the 9th Judicial District Attorney’s office to offer him a plea bargain during a Monday pretrial conference, District Attorney Brett Carter said. Court records show Timothy Michael Burke, 52, faces charges of aggravated battery upon a peace officer resulting in great bodily harm, three counts of assault with intent to commit a violent felony upon a peace officer, resisting, evading or obstructing a peace officer, and possession of a c...
Matt Chandler, right, laughs as he listens to Bennie Nieves, former chairman of the Republican Party in Clovis, talk about him Saturday during Chandler’s announcement to run for the district attorney position. CNJ staff photo: Eric Kluth. Matt Chandler wants to bring what he calls “a bold new vision” to the 9th Judicial District Attorney’s office where he’s served 17 months. Brett Carter, the incumbent district attorney, said voters should remember his nearly 17 years of experience in the district attorney’s office when...
When the Rev. Randy Mullin of First Baptist Church of Farwell began hosting a financial ministry this past fall, he couldn’t believe the response. “It’s been incredible,” Mullin said. “When we launched this thing back in November, I guess probably the best way to describe it is we hit a very sensitive nerve. We had 22 families go through the ‘Financial Peace University’ the first time, and of those 22 families, we have retired about $50,000 in debt.” Mullin said one of the best things about the program has been that about...
Ange Green knows a bit about leadership. As the wife of Bishop W. Charles Green Sr., head of the Church of God in Christ’s New Mexico jurisdiction, Green said she’s learned a great deal about leadership from her husband that will help her conduct a special leadership conference on Feb. 13 and 14. The two-day event will meet at First COGIC, located at 3400 Vinton Street in Clovis. “He has been pastoring the church for 46 years; he was assigned by a former bishop of our state, Bishop J.W. Taylor,” Green said. “We’ll... Full story
Cops and Courts The Clovis Police Department will conduct intensive traffic enforcement operations during February, according to Capt. Dan Blair. While operations will be conducted throughout the city, Blair said three intersections on North Prince have become particular areas of concern. “The city is growing; we see more traffic problems here,” Blair said. “Within the next couple of weeks we are going to have some major operations on Prince and Commerce, Prince and 21st, and Prince and Llano. People need to know these light...
