Local NewsMeza Charged with Child Pornography
(Deming) – A Deming man made his initial appearance in federal court in Las Cruces Wednesday on child pornography charges. A media release said 35-year-old Christopher Meza appeared on a criminal complaint charging him with distributing and possessing child pornography. According to the criminal complaint, the investigation leading to Meza’s arrest was initiated in March of this year after an FBI agent who was working in an undercover capacity in Oklahoma, signed into a publicly available peer-to-peer file-sharing network that was being used by individuals who were sharing child pornography images and videos. The agent learned that an IP Address and email address subscribed to Meza allegedly were being used to share child pornography. On May 3rd, FBI agents executed a search warrant at Meza’s residence and seized a computer that allegedly contained more than a dozen video files and more than a hundred image files of child pornography. Meza remains in federal custody pending a preliminary hearing and a detention hearing, which have yet to be scheduled. Garcia Sentenced for Role in Meth Trafficking (Deming) – A Deming man was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Las Cruces to 10 years in prison for his conviction on a methamphetamine trafficking charge. A media release said 45-year-old Andy Garcia was charged together with co-defendants 53-year-old Leslie Frank Williams and 47-year-old Domingo Rodriguez, both of Deming, 47-year-old Oscar Garcia, a Mexican national illegally in the United States, and 46-year-old Estella Aguilar, of Tucson, Ariz., in a nine-count indictment filed in April of 2016. The indictment charged the defendants with conspiring to distribute methamphetamine from July 2015 through April 2016. The indictment charged the defendants with committing the crimes in Luna County, and included forfeiture allegations requiring the defendants to forfeit $1 million to the United States. Garcia pleaded guilty in October of 2016 to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. In entering the guilty plea, Garcia admitted to travelling by bus from Deming to California in January of 2016 to pick up two pounds of methamphetamine – meth that was seized by law enforcement officers while he was on the bus returning to Deming. Crime Report (Deming) – Here’s the area crime report: Angelia Siragusa, age 52, of Vallejo, CA, was arrested for aggravated DUI and speeding… Jesus Garcia, age 28, was arrested for burglary and unlawful taking of a motor vehicle… Jimmy Perez, age 30, was arrested on an Adult Probation and Parole Office warrant for a probation violation… and Emily Renteria, age 21, was arrested on two Magistrate warrants for failure to pay fines. Also, a pickup truck struck a deer near mile marker 13 on the Columbus Highway; the deer was killed and the vehicle sustained $500 in damage to a headlight and passenger door… a Deming High School laptop assigned to a student and valued at $800 was taken from a vehicle parked off N. Platinum… a cellular phone valued at over $100 was taken from a residence off W. Florida… and horses were found running at large off Solano Rd. in the county. 
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