Inside the shoplifting bust of Albuquerque Journal editor Patrick Ethridge

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) When officers from the Rio Rancho Police Department first approached Patrick Ethridge, he was self-scanning a cart of groceries at a Walmart on Unser Boulevard, the city’s main drag. It was shortly after 7 p.m. on Aug. 24, and Ethridge, 47, the executive editor and vice president of the Albuquerque Journal, was wearing a motorcycle festival T-shirt with a slogan on the back: “Chasin’ Tail Raisin’ Hell.” The police told him that they’d seen his kids causing trouble elsewhere in the store.

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