Roswell Daily Record
Standoff ends peacefully
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April 17, 2013
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AMY VOGELSANG RECORD STAFF WRITER
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NEW YORK (AP) — Strong housing and earnings reports helped stocks rebound from their worst day of the year. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 157.58 points, or 1.1 percent, on Tuesday, to 14,756.78, winning back more than half of the 265 points it lost a day earlier. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index logged its second-best ... - PAGE B5
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Police and SWAT Team officers responded to a southwest neighborhood Tuesday after reports of a possible hostage situation. After a three-hour standoff, a suspect was taken on outstanding warrants and the situation ended in his arrest. Officers first responded at 3 p.m. outside a home on Sequoia Avenue near the corner of Bland Street after receiving reports of a woman being held against her will inside the home, according to Roswell Police Department Public Information Liaison Sabrina Morales. A SWAT Team was called to the scene to attempt to extricate the alleged hostages. One occupant inside the house was identified as Manuel Otero, 32. The domestic situation involved Otero, and a Amy Vogelsang Photo woman and her two A woman holds a 6-year-old child and quickly departs the scene of a four-hour police standoff after a woman and her two young girls, ages 1 and 6, young children, including the child pictured, were released from a home during a domestic situation. Manuel Otero, 32, was who were inside the arrested on outstanding warrants from Bernalillo County. house. Police reportedly originally thought the woman was being held against her will. This was later confir med as unfounded, Morales said. Just after 6 p.m., the woman and her two small children were released from the home, leaving Otero inside. Police threw a flashbang explosive device to disorient Otero. Otero willingly walked out of the house where officers had been waiting for nearly four Amy Vogelsang Photo hours. Roswell Police escort Manuel Otero, 32, to a waiting police cruiser after arresting him on outstanding warrants out of Bernalillo County.
See STANDOFF, Page A3
US resorted to torture after 9/11 terror PSAs may make comeback SUMMERALL DEAD AT 82
DALLAS (AP) — Pat Summerall, the deep-voiced NFL player-turned-broadcaster who spent half of his four decades calling sports famously paired with John Madden, died Tuesday. He was 82. Susie Wiles, Summerall’s daughter, said her father died in Dallas. “He was an extraordinary man and a wonderful father,” Wiles said. “I know he will be greatly missed.” Summerall was part of network television broadcasts for 16 Super Bowls. - PAGE B1
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NEW YORK (AP) — An independent review of the U.S. government’s antiterrorism response after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks reported Tuesday that it is “indisputable” the United States engaged in torture and the George W. Bush administration bears responsibility. The report by the Constitution Project, a nonpartisan Washingtonbased think-tank, is an ambitious review of the Bush administration’s approach to the problems of holding and interrogating detainees after the attacks on the World T rade Center and the Pentagon. The report says brutality has occurred in war before, “But there is no evidence there had ever before been the kind of considered and detailed discussions that occurred
“Yes, the president could authorize torture, he said was Yoo’s response,” according to the report. “Yoo said that whether the techniques should be used wasn’t a legal question, but rather it was a policy question,” the report says.
after September 11, directly involving a president and his top advisers on the wisdom, propriety and legality of inflicting pain and tor ment on some detainees in our custody.” The former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush, John Bolton, called the report “completely divorced from reality” and stressed that the procedures were “lawyered, and lawyered again, and lawyered again.” “The whole point of the
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Cats peer from their front window at a residence on West Juniper, Tuesday morning.
Bush administration’s review of the techniques was so that no one would be tortured,” he said. “The intention was precisely the opposite.” The Constitution Project surveyed the ways in which prisoners were held and interrogated at Guantanamo Bay, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and at secret CIA “black prisons.” The report is the product of a two-year study based on evidence in the public record. It was conSee TORTURE, Page A3
JESSICA PALMER RECORD STAFF WRITER
The Police Council Committee is dusting off an old idea and making it fresh as a means of helping with the manpower shortages that continue to plague the Roswell Police Department. The idea of bringing back the Police Service Aides has been proposed by Ward 3 Councilor Jeanine Best. City Hall has two job descriptions for PSAs, one dating back to 1978. The most recent comes from 2004. Sgt. Jimmy Preston explained, “The PSA program was set up for a specific purpose, as a stepping-stone to get young people into law enforcement. It ended because we could not get enough 18- to 20-year-olds who qualified to apply.” He referred to it as a beneficial program, but, “The age limit became a problem
because there are not a lot of people of that group who are interested in police work.” Best agreed that the age limitation had detracted from the program in the past. She hopes to eliminate that restriction. She believes the youngest age should be 20 and the program opened up to former police officers and retirees. “Kids do not have a work ethic as we once did.” According to Best, the police service aides will write incident reports which will allow local RPD to address major crimes. The PSA will be a part-time post. “They will not be put in harm’s way at all. We need to have the officers left to work doing their jobs.” She feels that the reintroduction of the position of PSA will free the city to hire more police. Best praised
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Udall has $919K in re-election campaign fund
SANTA FE (AP) — U.S. Sen. Tom Udall has raised nearly $800,000 in the past three months for his reelection campaign next year, according to a new fundraising disclosure. The first-term Democrat’s campaign reported a cash balance of $919,256 at the end of March. No Republican challenger has announced a run against Udall, who was elected in 2008. Udall had receipts of $797,295 from January through March, with nearly three-fourths of that coming from individual contributors. Political action committees donated nearly
$182,000, according to a financial summary released by his campaign. He reported spending $230,609. In 2008, Udall spent more than $7 million on his winning campaign against Republican Steve Pearce. Pearce, who represents the 2nd Congressional District of southern New Mexico, reported $605,913 of cash on hand for his reelection campaign. Pearce raised $94,180, including $2,500 from Sunland Park racetrack and casino owner Stan Fulton, and $13,000 from PACs affiliated with large accounting firms and an organization represent-
ing certified public accountants. His campaign spent $87,194.
In the 3rd District of norther n New Mexico, Democratic incumbent Ben Ray Lujan had a campaign cash balance of $386,097. Lujan raised $155,200 for his re-election, including $2,000 from a PAC of the Major League Baseball Commissioner’s Office and $19,000 from labor union political action committees. His campaign spent $83,584.
In the Albuquerque-area 1st District, first-ter m See UDALL, Page A3