ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Newly-unsealed documents are giving us insight into the FBI investigation that broke open the DWI bribery scheme that rocked multiple agencies across New Mexico.
Hundreds of documents show what FBI investigators were looking into in the months and years leading up to a raid in Los Lunas in January 2024 at the home of former Albuquerque Police Dept. officer Harvey Johnson, Jr.
That includes search warrants from 2023 in which FBI special agents detail knowledge of extensive communication between law enforcement officers and a paralegal named Ricardo “Rick” Mendez…