Public Safety

Police Beat items are compiled from public information contained in Los Alamos Police Department Records. Charges or citations listed in Police Beat do not imply innocence or guilt.
Sept. 16

5:45 p.m. – Moses Salazar, 24, of Los Alamos was arrested near 6th and Iris Street on an outstanding Magistrate Court Warrant following an investigation of an incident at which it was determined that he had violated conditions of his release from jail.
Sept. 17

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — A physicist accused after an FBI sting operation of trying to help Venezuela develop a nuclear weapon has been released to a halfway house.

Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni appeared Monday in Albuquerque before a federal magistrate.

A defense attorney argued Mascheroni has posed no threat to national security or a danger to the community in the 11 months since a search warrant was served at his Los Alamos home.

The judge also agreed to place Mascheroni's wife, Marjorie, on house arrest.

A vehicle crashed into a bicyclist riding on Bathtub Row this morning.

"The bicyclist's injuries are serious but don't appear life-threatening," said Assistant Fire Chief/Fire Marshal Mike Thompson.

Sgt. Jeff Regenold was at the scene and said the accident occurred at about 7:10 a.m. when a 39-year-old man making a right-hand turn in his 1998 Ford station wagon hit a 56-year-old woman riding her bicycle.

The impact from the vehicle left a deep gash in the woman's foot, which was bleeding profusely, Regenold said.

Diamond Drive Phase 4

Please use extreme caution when driving though the Diamond Drive work zone.
Paving operations within the Phase 4 work zone are scheduled to begin this week. Traffic signage will be in place to ensure safe vehicular travel through the work zone. Delays in travel should be anticipated in these areas.