{"id":33903,"date":"2011-11-18T08:56:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T15:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=33903"},"modified":"2011-11-18T08:56:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T15:56:32","slug":"former-cruces-council-candidate-pleads-guilty-to-dwi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/11\/former-cruces-council-candidate-pleads-guilty-to-dwi\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Cruces council candidate pleads guilty to DWI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31374\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31374\" title=\"Dailey, Ryan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Dailey-Ryan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Dailey<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Former Las Cruces City Council candidate Ryan Dailey has pleaded guilty to a drunken driving charge in Virginia; he says he plans to fight a similar charge in Las Cruces and will run for city council again in four years.<\/p>\n<p>Dailey contacted NMPolitics.net to ask that the information about his plea be published. He said he admitted to DWI in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/09\/cruces-council-candidate-also-wanted-for-dwi-in-virginia\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Virginia case<\/a> in exchange for the dismissal of a charge of carrying a 10-inch knife hidden in his vehicle on a Navy base. Both charges were misdemeanors.<\/p>\n<p>Daily said federal Magistrate Judge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmcourt.fed.us\/web\/DCDOCS\/Judges\/garza.html\" target=\"_blank\">Carmen Garza<\/a> in Las Cruces accepted the plea, sentenced him to one year on probation, and fined him $250. He said he agreed to the plea bargain because he didn\u2019t want to be extradited to Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Dailey still faces charges <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/09\/cruces-council-candidate-arrested-for-dwi\/\" target=\"_blank\">in Las Cruces<\/a> of aggravated drunken driving, improper lane usage and lack of due care stemming from a September incident that resulted in his arrest. Those charges are all misdemeanors, and Dailey is fighting them.<\/p>\n<p>He said he will run for city council in 2015. He currently lives in District 4, which is represented by <a href=\"http:\/\/las-cruces.org\/Government\/Legislative\/City%20Council\/District%204.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Small<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dailey was one of two people who filed paperwork to run against Small in this year\u2019s election. He decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/09\/dailey-defends-decision-to-stay-in-cruces-council-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">stay in the race<\/a> even after his September arrest, but the city clerk later <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/10\/two-hopefuls-disqualified-from-cruces-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\">disqualified him<\/a> because he didn\u2019t submit enough valid signatures to run.<\/p>\n<p>Small easily won re-election last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Las Cruces City Council candidate Ryan Dailey has pleaded guilty to a drunken driving charge in Virginia; he says he plans to fight a similar charge in Las Cruces and will run for city council again in four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[142,145,214],"class_list":["post-33903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crime","tag-las-cruces","tag-las-cruces-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33903","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=33903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}