EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The New Mexico Department of Transportation named its District One Silver City Patrol as the winner of this year’s Ben Lopez Memorial Best Patrol Award.
The award was established in memory of Ben Lopez, a NMDOT patrol supervisor who died on Aug. 18, 2005, in a random act of violence as he arrived for his shift at the North Urban Patrol yard in Albuquerque, NMDOT said.
His death marked the beginning of a violent crime spree that also claimed the lives of two motorcycle shop employees and two Albuquerque police officers, the NMDOT said…