Las Cruces City Manager Terrence Moore (Photo by Heath Haussamen)
An investigation by the county sheriff’s department into a situation involving Las Cruces City Manager Terrence Moore and his ex-wife is complete and has been forwarded to the district attorney’s office for review.
That’s according to Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Joe Reynaud, who said he hopes the DA review is completed today so the results can be released publicly.
Reynaud said sheriff’s investigators looked at what the Las Cruces Police Department had previously done in the investigation and expanded beyond that. The work of the sheriff’s department included interviewing Moore.
“He’s cooperated fully with the investigation,” Reynaud said.
The sheriff’s department has been investigating two incidents involving Moore and his ex-wife. The department took over what was originally an LCPD probe after the district attorney raised concerns about LCPD investigating a case involving its own boss and urged the transfer.
Moore oversees the police chief and, by extension, the police department.
Last year, Las Cruces police looked into injuries Moore’s then-wife suffered in late 2008 and questions surrounding a police report the city manager filed over a prescription-drug incident in January 2009, treating the two incidents as a single case. Las Cruces police closed the case last year without filing charges.
Interim Police Chief Pete Bradley has said the case was dropped because no one, including Moore’s ex-wife, alleged a crime, and police didn’t have probable cause to proceed. Moore has pointed out that no one has alleged “that I’ve done anything wrong.”
LCPD never interviewed Moore. The district attorney has said that should have been done, and that’s one of the reasons she urged a new probe by the sheriff.