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Officers fatally shoot suspect in Valencia County

Gabrielle Porter
State Police says one of its officers and two Bernalillo County sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a person of interest in “multiple homicides” following an overnight chase and standoff south of Belen.

The male — whose identity and age have not been released — was wanted on suspicion of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon on a household member and had a violent criminal history, State Police said in a news release. The multi-agency pursuit began late Friday night, when the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office alerted State Police that the male was heading south on Interstate 25 in a maroon Ford F-350 pickup truck. State Police used tire deflation devices at milepost 195 near Belen to try to stop him.

“The driver of the Ford drove over the devices and continued to travel south on Interstate 25,” the release said.

At one point, the male drove through Belen, drove the wrong way down an off ramp and began driving south in the northbound lanes of I-25.

A State Police officer used a “pursuit intervention technique,” forcing the truck to roll in the dirt shoulder of the highway, where BCSO SWAT officers, Belen Police Department officers and State Police converged, according to the release.

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Santa Fe man tackles suspected car burglar, held him until police came

Phaedra Haywood, The Santa Fe New Mexican
A 74-year-old Santa Fe man tackled a 32-year-old serial criminal Wednesday evening and held him on the ground until police arrived, according to a police report.

David Lailes was arrested and charged with burglary of a vehicle after a police officer responding to a report of a burglary in progress arrived to find the suspect being pinned to the ground by a resident, according to the officer’s report.

Santa Fe police Officer Gregory Brendal-Urbina wrote he was dispatched to a residential area near Santa Fe High School shortly after 6 p.m. and arrived to see two people on the ground — “one securing the other not allow him to get up,” according to the report — and a third person standing close by with a phone.

The man who tackled Lailes said he was already on alert because vehicles in his area, including his own, recently had been burglarized. The man’s adult son arrived at his home and told him he’d seen a suspicious-looking man walking down the street.

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Bride and groom show up armed for wedding at Florida gun store. She carried an AR-15

Mark Price, The Charlotte Observer
An adventurous Florida couple with a soft spot for firearms got married this week at the only place that made perfect sense: a gun store.

It happened Tuesday — 2-22-22 on the calendar — at Mad Dog Armory in Tampa, and photos show a lot of people came armed, including the reverend who performed the wedding.

Bride-to-be Jennifer Hahn wore a pink veil, matching sleeveless gown and carried a bouquet of flowers fixed to the barrel of a Diamondback AR-15 with Holosun optic and magnifier.

The groom, Jason Hahn, dressed comfortably in jeans and a flannel shirt, and carried a 30-year-old custom Springfield 1911 pistol with several upgrades.

“A wedding in a gun store you say? Why not?” Mad Dog Armory wrote on Facebook. “Can you guess where they went afterwards? Yup, the shooting range!”

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The bride is registered at Gunbroker.com.

Links courtesy of our own Gun Bunny.

“There’s no legitimate use for a gun like this.” –Chicago Police Superintendent Philip Cline, brandishing a 9mm semiautomatic handgun at a news conference (Chicago Tribune, “Special unit hauling in guns, drugs” by Glenn Jeffers, January 29, 2004)

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