{"id":2252,"date":"2007-09-18T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/09\/cop-involved-in-victorias-citation-arrested-for-dwi\/"},"modified":"2007-09-18T10:26:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T16:26:00","slug":"cop-involved-in-victorias-citation-arrested-for-dwi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/09\/cop-involved-in-victorias-citation-arrested-for-dwi\/","title":{"rendered":"Cop involved in Victoria’s citation arrested for DWI"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of two police officers involved in issuing a citation in May to a bar owned by Senate Majority Whip Mary Jane Garcia<\/a> was arrested on Saturday for drunken driving \u2013 the second time he\u2019s faced DWI charges.<\/p>\n

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Sgt. Conrad Chavira, a supervisor in the Special Investigations Division, has been placed on administrative duty after being arrested in Ruidoso on Saturday. He was not on duty when, according to police, he was on his motorcycle and tried to avoid a DWI checkpoint.<\/p>\n

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Chavira, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican<\/a>, had a blood-alcohol level of 0.13. The legal limit for driving is 0.08.<\/p>\n

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Chavira works in a unit that travels around the state and targets bars that might be serving minors or intoxicated people.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s what he was doing in Las Cruces<\/st1:city> on May 25, when he and another officer entered Victoria<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>\u2019s, a bar owned by Garcia and her sister Elodia. The other officer ended up citing the bar for serving an intoxicated person after Chavira spotted the obviously drunk man who was still drinking and performed a breath test that indicated his blood-alcohol level was 0.18.<\/p>\n

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On Saturday, an officer reported smelling alcohol on Chavira\u2019s breath from 10 feet away, according to the Albuquerque Tribune<\/a>. He admitted to having two drinks and failed field sobriety tests. He was also charged with battery on a household member stemming from the fact that a female passenger was riding with him at the time.<\/p>\n

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It was Chavira\u2019s second drunken driving arrest, the Tribune reported. The first was in 1991.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s the kicker: When asked to perform field sobriety tests this weekend, according to the Tribune, Chavira responded by saying he was a police officer. Now, you might recall Garcia\u2019s sister, when notified her bar was being cited, informing the officer who issued the citation that \u201cher sister was a state senator,\u201d according to the police report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Elodia Garcia\u2019s statement was an entirely inappropriate attempt to use her sister\u2019s official position to avoid the citation. Chavira\u2019s statement was equally inappropriate. Judges can be disciplined by the Supreme Court for using their law-enforcement position in such a manner. Perhaps Chavira should be similarly punished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of two police officers involved in issuing a citation in May to a bar owned by Senate Majority Whip Mary Jane Garcia was arrested on Saturday for drunken driving \u2013 the second time he\u2019s faced DWI charges. Sgt. Conrad Chavira, a supervisor in the Special Investigations Division, has been placed on administrative duty after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}