(Deming) – Tips are being sought on a series of suspected arson-caused fires Saturday afternoon off the Old Las Cruces Highway.
Luna County Undersheriff Arturo Baeza said it appeared four or five different fires were set in a seven-mile area between mile marker 10 and mile marker 17 on Highway 549 at about 2 p.m. Saturday.
The fires were set just off the roadway shoulder, and caused $2,500 in damage to private corrals in the area, plus burned PNM power poles and fence posts.
Fire crews from Florida Mountain, Cooks Peak, Columbus, Deming and state fire officials from Las Cruces responded to the fires.
Anyone with information on the arson is encouraged to call Investigator David Holguin with the Luna County Sheriff’s Department, use TipSoft or call Crime Stoppers.
You access TipSoft by anonymously submitting information via text to LUNATIP at CRIMES – or 274637. The number to Crime Stoppers is 546-7800. And the number to the Luna County Sheriff’s Department is 546-2655.
Luna County Undersheriff Arturo Baeza said it appeared four or five different fires were set in a seven-mile area between mile marker 10 and mile marker 17 on Highway 549 at about 2 p.m. Saturday.
The fires were set just off the roadway shoulder, and caused $2,500 in damage to private corrals in the area, plus burned PNM power poles and fence posts.
Fire crews from Florida Mountain, Cooks Peak, Columbus, Deming and state fire officials from Las Cruces responded to the fires.
Anyone with information on the arson is encouraged to call Investigator David Holguin with the Luna County Sheriff’s Department, use TipSoft or call Crime Stoppers.
You access TipSoft by anonymously submitting information via text to LUNATIP at CRIMES – or 274637. The number to Crime Stoppers is 546-7800. And the number to the Luna County Sheriff’s Department is 546-2655.
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