SEVERAL CONVENIENCE STORES IN SOUTHWEST ALBUQUERQUE IS BEHIND BARS TONIGHT. BUT BERNALILLO COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPUTIES SAY GABRIEL SERNA DIDN'T GIVE UP EASILY. JEFF MAHER IS LIVE NEAR ISLETA AND PAJARITO WITH OUR TOP STORY. JEFF? IT WAS AT THIS MINI-MART WHERE DEPUTIES SAY GABRIEL SERNA HELD UP THE CLERKS AT GUNPOINT AND MADE OFF WITH SOME CASH AND DROVE AWAY WITH AN ACCOMPLICE. BUT DEPUTIES SAY SERNA'S HISTORY OF ROBBERIES IN THIS AREA HELPED LEAD THEM TO HIS HIDING SPOT. 'ms. Paz, do you understand the charges filed against you?' DEPUTIES SAY JOANN PAZ HAS SERVED AS AN ACCOMPLICE TO ARMED ROBBERIES BEFORE WITH 44- YEAR-OLD GABRIEL SERNA. SHE WAS IN COURT TODAY - SERNA WAS NOT ... HE'S SICK. DEFENSE ATTORNEYS TRIED TO GET PAZ'S BOND REDUCED - BUT THE JUDGE SAID NO. 'there was a swat callout and everything, your bond is ten- thousand cash assurety' YESTERDAY, DEPUTIES RESPONDED TO AN ARMED ROBBERY AT EL CAMINO RAEL MINI-MART. THE CLERKS TOLD...
NEWS WHEN IT COMES TO THE CRIME PROBLEM IN ALBUQUERQUE. THE GOOD NEWS ... OVERALL, CRIME IS DOWN. BUT THE BAD NEWS ... MURDERS, RAPES, AND ARMED ROBBERIES HAVE GONE UP. ANTOINETTE ANTONIO HAS THE...
BELIEVE THEY'VE FINALLY CRACKED THE CASE OF THE 'BACKPACK BANDITS'. A-P-D HAS ANNOUNCED THE ARREST OF TWO OF THE SUSPECTS THEY BELIEVE COMMITTED NEARLY TWO DOZEN ARMED ROBBERIES......
WEARING BLACK SKI MASKS AND ARMED WITH GUNS, POLICE SAY TWO TEENS HELD UP THREE BUSINESSES IN LESS THAN AN HOUR. BUT AN OFFICER IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME FOILS THEIR GETAWAY. GADI...
WE FIND IT'S NOT EASY THESE DAYS FOR SOME ALBUQUERQUE STORE OWNERS TO GET SECURITY CAMERAS INSTALLED. THAT'S BECAUSE WITH ALL THE ROBBERIES AND BURGLARIES THESE DAYS -- SECURITY COMPANIES...
BRINGING OUT PEOPLE WHO ARE LOOKING FOR MORE THAN JUST CANDY. ALBUQUERQUE POLICE SAY ARMED ROBBERIES ARE ON THE RISE... BUT THEY'RE USING A TRIED-AND-TRUE TECHNIQUE TO STOP THEM. GADI SCHWARTZ...
ROBBERIES IN ONE WEEK ... AND RIO RANCHO POLICE SAY THE GUNMAN IS GETTING BRAVER. TODAY THE ROBBER WALKED INTO A BEAUTY SUPPLY STORE WITH A GUN IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, AND POLITELY ASKED AN EMPLOYEE TO...
UNIT HIT THE STREETS TONIGHT TO CHECK UP ON KNOWN GANG MEMBERS. THE OPERATION WASN'T SO MUCH ABOUT ARRESTS -- BUT RATHER A WARNING THAT POLICE ARE WATCHING -- AND CAN MOVE IN AT A...
A STRING OF ARMED ROBBERIES IN THE NORTHEAST HEIGHTS. 'NOW'...THEY'RE ON THE HUNT FOR HIS PARTNER. AND COPS SAY THE NOOSE IS TIGHTENING. CRIS ORNELAS IS LIVE OUTSIDE METRO COURT WITH...
SUSPECTED OF ROBBING AT LEAST FOUR BUSINESSES IN RIO RANCHO. THESE PICTURES WERE TAKEN AT THE RIO RANCHO WAL- MART... JUST MOMENTS BEFORE POLICE SAY THE SUSPECT ROBBED THE SALLY BEAUTY SUPPLY STORE...
