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A Hobbs man is accused of using his former employer's gas card to rack up more than $1.2 million in gasoline charges over several years since leaving the company. David Rochel, 50, is charged with six counts of fraudulent use of an illegally obtained credit card of over $20,000 and one count of theft of a credit card in the case. An attorney for Rochel could not be reached Tuesday. Although the fraudulent charges were ongoing for years, court records show more than $120,000 in diesel fuel was charged to the company card...
SANTA FE — With Election Day less than six weeks away, Republican Mark Ronchetti continues to hammer away at Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's record on crime. In a recently launched TV ad, Ronchetti criticized a Lujan Grisham executive order from April 2020 that, over two-plus years, authorized more than 700 inmates to be released early from prison due to the COVID-19 pandemic, provided they met specific criteria that included being scheduled for release within the next 30 days. A spokeswoman for the Democratic governor said t...