The attorney at the center of the "DWI Deception" scheme involving local law enforcement has been disbarred and his law office home has been seized.

Bernalillo County Undersheriff Johann Jareno and Deputy Jeffry Bartram are the latest implicated in a "generational" scheme.

Albuquerque attorney Rudolph B. Chavez has denied any involvement in a decades-old criminal scheme in which law enforcement officers took bribes from an Albuquerque law firm to make sure suspects they ...

Another local, high-profile, defense attorney has been implicated in the federal DWI Deception scandal -- Rudy Chavez.

BEFORE TODAY, MULTIPLE FORMER OFFICERS FROM THE ALBUQUERQUE POLICE DEPARTMENT PLEADED GUILTY. BUT TODAY ... WORKING WITH DEFENSE ATTORNEY THOMAS CLEAR AND PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR RICARDO MENDEZ ...

ALBUQUERQUE ... In his federal guilty plea, Hammerel admitted to conspiring with former defense attorney, Thomas Clear III, his paralegal Rick Mendez, and an unnamed ‘supervisory deputy ...

Albuquerque attorney Thomas Clear III, a former chair of the state Public Defender Commission, pleaded guilty last month to a slew of federal counts, including racketeering, weeks after his ...