Christine Steele

A life for a life. The state of New Mexico does not have the death penalty, but it does have a sentence of life in prison for first-degree murder, and that is the sentence District Court Judge Jared Hofacket handed down to former Silver City police…

After four and a half hours of deliberations, a Sixth Judicial District Court jury found former Silver City police officer Bradley Farrington guilty Thursday of first-degree murder in the strangulation death of his wife, Cassy Brooks Farrington, who…

A key witness who failed to appear in court earlier this week — and had a bench warrant issued to get him to show up — finally took the stand Wednesday in the Bradley Farrington murder trial. Farrington is a former Silver City police officer charged…

A key witness in the Bradley Farrington trial was missing and Grant County sheriff’s deputies were out looking for him Tuesday. Former Grant County Sheriff’s Deputy Jose Sanchez, who was the lead investigator on the Cassy Farrington murder case, was…

Jury selection in the Bradley Farrington murder case was held Friday in Silver City District Court. Eighty people were called to be prospective jurors on the case, in which Farrington, 30, a former Silver City police officer, is charged with murder…

The Bradley Farrington murder trial was over before it began Monday, as Judge Jarod Hofacket declared a mistrial shortly after court began at 9:40 a.m. Farrington, 30, is a former Silver City police officer, charged with killing his wife, Cassy Marie…

Steven “Syklon” Morales, 39, was set to go to trial this week for the murder of Estevan Ortega, 22, who was found shot to death in his car on Radio Tower Road in Pinos Altos on Jan. 14, 2015. But state prosecutors have dismissed their case against…

Accused murderer, former Silver City Police Officer Bradley Farrington, appeared in court on Wednesday for the first time since being released from the Grant County Detention Center before Christmas on house arrest with no ankle monitor to the…

The trial of a former Silver City police officer accused of killing his estranged wife has been continued to allow time for the state to hire an expert to examine new evidence uncovered in the case. Bradley Farrington, 30, was expected to go to trial…

A man scheduled to stand trial next year for first-degree murder in Grant County could also face life in prison in a related federal case. Defense attorneys for Steven “Syklone” Morales told District Court Judge J.C. Robinson by telephone on Monday…

A Mimbres man’s death has been declared a homicide by the Office of the Medical Investigator and a woman has been charged in his death. Molynda Brewer, 43, has been charged with an open count of murder, and tampering with evidence, in the death of…

A Mexican national in the country illegally will face an open count of murder in Silver City District Court after his case was bound over following a preliminary hearing in Silver City Magistrate Court on Friday. Isaias Lovato Rodriguez, 61, has been…

Grant County sheriff’s deputies are investigating a suspicious death in the Mimbres Valley that occurred on Saturday night. Walter Biebelle III, 67, of San Lorenzo, was found dead in his home in the 2400 block of Highway 61 in the Mimbres. Deputies…

On April 21, 2016, Grant County was rocked by the news that Silver City Police Capt. Mark Contreras, 41, murdered his ex-girlfriend Nikki Bascom, 31, and then turned the gun on himself, following weeks of alleged abuse against Bascom. On Oct. 21,…

Marcella Perez’s family filed silently into the smaller of the two courtrooms on the second floor of the Sixth Judicial District Court in Silver City. They filled several rows of seats in the tiny room. Judge H.R. Quintero first heard from the state…

Saying it didn’t understand that a final order had been issued demanding it turn over documents the defense requested in the Cassy Farrington murder case, the county finally complied on Sept. 27, according to a response filed by County Attorney Abby…

The defense attorney for Bradley Farrington, the former Silver City police officer who is charged with murder in the March 2014 death of his wife, Cassy Marie Farrington, has requested the personnel files of two officers involved in the internal…