SHERMAN, Texas (AP) — Country singer Randy Travis has been charged with
driving while intoxicated.

The Grayson County Sheriff's Office says Travis was being jailed without bond
Wednesday pending an appearance before a judge in Sherman, about 60 miles north of Dallas. 
Sgt. Rickey Wheeler says Travis also faces a charge of retaliation or obstruction. Wheeler had no details on that count. Wheeler says a Texas trooper arrested Travis around midnight Tuesday near Tioga, where the entertainer
lives.

A Travis representative did not immediately reply to a message Wednesday from The Associated Press. 

Tom Vinger, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, told AP that
a Pontiac Trans Am registered to Travis, 53, had driven off a road west of
Tioga, striking several barricades in a construction zone. "   Travis had a strong odor of alcoholic beverage on his breath and several signs of intoxication," reads a  statement from the sheriff's office. "While Travis was being transported, Travis  made threats to shoot and kill the troopers working the case." The out-of-control behavior earned him a "retaliation and obstruction" booking in  addition to the DWI he now faces. 

Its being reported that Travis was naked in the road when police arrived.   It's not his first drunken  exchange with police. In February, Travis was arrested in front of a Baptist  church for public intoxication. 

Travis in February was charged with public intoxication after being spotted in a vehicle parked in front of a church in Sanger, about 20 miles from  Tioga.

(Las Cruces-Deming) The verdict is in for a Deming family accused of selling guns to a Mexican Drug Cartel member. 
KOB-TV is reporting that the parents and two sons, owners of local Deming business New Deal Shooting Sports, have been found not guilty of gun smuggling charges.  

Rick Reese, his wife Terri Reese and their two sons Ryin and Remington Reese were charged for selling weapons and ammunition from the family gun store in Deming.  One of the sons, Remington Reese has been acquitted on all charges.

However, Rick, Terri and Ryin Reese were found guilty on much lesser charges including making false statements.  But again the family has been found NOT guilty on the most serious gun smuggling charges.  Additional information will follow.
*photos from Luna County Detention Center - Las Cruces Sun News

(Deming) – If you stop by the  Deming Elks Lodge on a Friday, you’re bound to see a lot of red – red shirts  that is, worn in support of our fighting men and women.

The red-shirt effort,  spearheaded by member Martha Johnson, is a reminder that Elks members support  our brave troops stationed in harms’ way.
 
In fact, the special  red shirts worn by at least 70 local Elks members, sport the patriotic language: “Land of the Free Because of the Brave.”

The Red-Shirt Friday  idea is patterned after a V-F-W post in Show Low, Arizona.

Proceeds from the sale  of the red shirts go to the New Mexico Elks Wounded Warriors Project. 

The local lodge  presented a nearly 400-dollar check to Elks State President Roger Hamman of  Roswell during his recent visit.

More shirts have been  ordered.

(Deming) – Deming Public Schools  Transportation Department officials have sent most students’ bus schedules home  by mail.

Parents who have not  received their student’s bus pass by next Tuesday, August 7th, are asked to stop by the transportation office or call.
 
The transportation  department will hold pre-registration next week for all eligible bus students,  including students new to the district, students attending a new school or  students who have had a change of address.
 
Bus passes will be  issued for these students Tuesday through Thursday of next week – August  7th through the 9th – at the transportation office, 501 West Florida,  just west of the Hofacket building.

To be eligible to be  transported by school bus, elementary and intermediate school students must live  more than a mile from
their home school… 7th through 9th  grade students must live more than a mile and half  from school… and sophomores,  juniors and seniors must live more than two miles from school.

Ray Trejo will be John Krehbiel's guest intervew on Monday August 6th at 7:30am on KOTS and KDEM radio.  Mr. Trejo will be talking about the transportation issues concerning DPS.  Contact transportation  officials at 546-8841 for more information.

(Deming) – The state is taking  over Mimbres Valley Escrow.

Orders for declaratory judgment  and permanent injunctive relief were filed Friday against Mimbres Valley Escrow  Services and owners Anna and Jesus Delgado.

The orders, filed in  the First Judicial District Court in Santa Fe, state that Mimbres Valley Escrow  has been conducting its business in an unsafe and injurious manner… has been  conducting its business in violation of the Escrow Company Act and accompanying  regulations… that the assets or capital of the business are impaired… and that  irreparable harm has occurred within the business. 

The permanent  injunction means the Delgados and their family members or agents are prohibited  from entering Mimbres Valley
Escrow at 507 South Gold, removing documents from  the business, or conducting business transactions as Mimbres Valley  Escrow.

The order also states  that the New Mexico Financial Institutions Division will oversee business  management, auditing and
day-to-day business transactions for Mimbres Valley  Escrow. The state was granted  immediate access.

Mimbres Valley Escrow  Services customers with questions about their accounts should call the state  Financial Institutions
Division at 505-476-4692 or visit the website  rld.state.nm.us/financialinstitutions.

(Deming) – Here’s the area crime  report: 
Michael Hatcher, 37,  was arrested for D-U-I – 3rd offense, having an open container, no  interlock as required, accident involving property damage, failing to  immediately notify authorities of an accident and negligent use of a firearm…
Ruben Enciso, age 27, was arrested on four Luna County warrants – three for 
failure to appear and one for failure to pay fines… Andres Munoz, age 29, was 
arrested on a District Court warrant for a probation violation… and Christina 
Barron, age 22, was arrested on two Magistrate warrants for failure to pay 
fines.  Also… a pickup parked off West  Ash was scratched and its cab
was set on fire causing $1,500 dollars’ worth  of damage… a window valued at $300 dollars was broken on a business off East  Pine… and $100 dollars in damage occurred at a gas pump at a station off East  Cedar when a customer drove off with the gas pump nozzle still in the car’s gas  tank.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Peg Perego recalled  hundreds of thousands of strollers Tuesday because children can become trapped  and strangled between trays on them. One death has already been reported.
A six-month-old boy from Tarzana, Calif. died of strangulation in a stroller
in 2004, while a seven-month-old girl from New York was nearly strangled in
2006, according  to Peg Perego USA Inc. The company said entrapment and
strangulation can take place, particularly among those younger than a year old,
when the child is not harnessed into the stroller. If unharnessed, children can
pass through the opening between the tray and the seat bottom and the child's
neck and head can become trapped by the tray.
Peg Perego is recalling approximately  223,000 strollers, which include Venezia
and Pliko-P3 strollers in various colors, made between January 2004 and
September 2007.
Only strollers with a child tray and one  cup holder are part of the recall. Strollers with a bumper bar in front of the  child or a tray with two cup holders are not included in this recall.
The company said the strollers were made  before a voluntary industry standard was implemented in January 2008 that addresses the height of the opening between the stroller's tray and the seat  bottom. The voluntary standard requires larger stroller openings that prevent
infant entrapment and strangulation hazards. The model numbers are:
The model numbers are:
Pliko-P3 Stroller Model Numbers Venezia
Stroller Model Numbers
IPFR28US34xxxxxxxx IPPF28NA32  IPVA13MU09
IPFT28NA63 IPPF28NA57 IPVA13MU10
IPFT28NA64 IPPF28NA65 IPVA13US09
IPP328MU10 IPPF28NA66 IPVA13US10
IPP328MU09 IPPF28NA67 IPVA13US32
IPP328US09 IPPF28NA68 IPVA13US34
IPP328US10 IPPO28US32 IPVC13NA32
IPP329US10 IPPO28US34 IPVC13NA34
IPPA28US32 IPPO28US62
IPPA28US33 IPPO28US69
IPPA28US34 IPPO28US70
IPPD28NA34 IPPO28US71
Consumers are advised to immediately stop using the strollers and contact Peg Perego for a free repair kit a 1-888-734-6020,
or on its web site, www.PegPeregoUSA.com.

(Deming) – The Deming Police  Department has been given an “F” when it comes to preventing racial profiling, but Chief Michael Carillo says the grade is unfair.     

Deming is listed among   the 78% of law enforcement agencies in the state that reportedly have not complied with regulations established by state  law to prevent racial profiling, according to a report released  Thursday.

The report, published by the  NAACP of New Mexico and  immigrant advocacy group Somos Un Pueblo Unido, revealed  that the majority of New Mexico’s departments are not complying with the basic  requirements established by the law approved in 2009.
 
Those requirements make police  departments update their rules, publish them and have them available to the  public.
Also, departments must keep forms  available so people can file complaints if they feel they’ve been the victims of  racial
discrimination.

But Carillo said not  only has the Deming Police Department had a policy against racial profiling for  some time… but that policy was recently updated with the department’s efforts to  become accredited by the New Mexico Municipal League.     
Carillo said he submitted information and forms on the departments’ process for dealing with complaints about officers in April to the two groups… and told the representative that the Deming department was in the process of revising its policy against racial profiling and he would submit that once completed.

Carillo submitted the  completed revised policy by fax on June 6th… and said the grade of  “F” is unfair.

(Deming) – Misdemeanor charges have been filed on two local dispatchers for allegedly releasing Crime Stoppers information to non-law enforcement
personnel.  
     27-year-old Julie Avila and 30-year-old Michelle Flores have been charged under a confidentiality statute that applies to unlawfully and intentionally releasing confidential information gained through a program relating to criminal
activity.
     The state statute appears to be specifically aimed at maintaining the integrity of anonymous crime prevention and intervention programs such as Crime
Stoppers.
      A statement of probable cause  filed in Luna County Magistrate Court says Avila and Flores released  confidential information obtained through the local Crime Stoppers tip line to  non-law enforcement personnel.
      The Crime Stoppers line – 546-7800 – is billed as being anonymous with calls never recorded or traced.  It is set up to allow persons to report crimes without
repercussions, and sometimes with a financial reward incentive.
     The two dispatchers reportedly have been let go of their jobs at Central Dispatch.