ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – On this episode of New Mexico Crime Files, KRQE anchors Dean Staley and Jessica Garate bring you the story of two violent shooting murders that appear unrelated at first – a teenager, Sean Markey gunned down at a party, and a young woman, Cayla Campos shot at a park while playing PokemonGo. What resulted when investigators finally pieced the two murders together and the 2023 sentencing of Izaiah Garcia.
Then, back in 2017, Santa Fe Police Officer Leo Guzman spots a stolen truck being driven by Raul Garcia, but Garcia refuses to stop and takes police on a reckless chase through city streets and even races against traffic, going the wrong way on the freeway to attempt to evade police. The result of the chase and how police eventually caught Garcia.
Finally, a brazen retail theft in 2023 caught on video by a bewildered customer led to changes in legislation and how prosecutors address retail crime…