One of the Albuquerque Police Department substations held a grand reopening Friday, with a special dedication. Mayor Tim Keller and other city officials held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Phil Chacon Memorial Substation in southeast Albuquerque.

"We wouldn't go and put something in, especially an affidavit, if we didn't think that there was going to be more to it," Special Agent in Charge Raul Bujanda said.

Federal prosecutors say the city's police department was the main focus of a 15-year bribery scheme that also involved the sheriff's office and the state police.

It’s been a year since the public learned of the massive corruption scandal involving a scheme to make DWI cases disappear. Federal documents last week, shed

An Albuquerque-based defense attorney faces potential discipline by the U.S. District Court in connection with a DWI scandal that has rocked several law enforcement agencies in New Mexico — in particular the Albuquerque Police Department — over the past year.

The scandal, referred to by prosecutors as the "DWI enterprise," implicates Bernalillo County sheriff's deputies and New Mexico State Police officers as well as Albuquerque police. Prosecutors allege certain law enforcement officers participated in a yearslong scheme to arrange for drunken-driving cases to be dismissed in exchange for cash.

APD Chief Harold Medina is warning folks of criminals stealing from cars. The recent violent case happened Sunday at Walgreens.

For the past 15 years, at least two lawyers and officers from the Albuquerque Police Department, New Mexico State Police and the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office ran a racketeering enterprise

KRQE News 13 has learned one of the officers who resigned last year connected to the federal investigation into the DWI Unit scandal now works for the New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department.

Local law enforcement officers wear the badge, knowing the risks that come with it. But Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina said now more than ever people are going to extreme lengths to avoid arrest.

NEW MEXICO (KRQE ... was adopted by state police from the NASA Kennedy Space Center. He was born in Holland and will be assigned to the police department’s bomb squad.

From 2008 to through 2023, federal prosecutors in New Mexico say ... say mainly involved officers assigned to the Albuquerque Police Department's DWI unit but also included employees of the ...