RIO RANCHO, N.M. (KRQE) – Officers were investigating reports of shots being fired on the mesa near Rio Rancho High School. They were trying to question a group there when one of them got argumentative with officers trying to secure the scene.
Officers arrived at a truck with a group of people near Rio Rancho High School on June 11, where they had multiple shots fired calls. One of the men in the group approached the officers. They detained the man and placed him in a cruiser.
The man said he or none of his friends had warrants, and he had guns in the truck, a shotgun, and four handguns. The officers told him repeatedly that they would explain why he was being detained.
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The officer pulled the man out of the vehicle and placed him in handcuffs. Then the officer seems to get through to the man. The man asks the officer what the law says about shooting out in the mesa, to which the officer says you’re not allowed to shoot in the city limits of Rio Rancho…