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tuesday April 22, 2014

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Lobo running back turns himself in, faces charges of criminal sexual penetration and kidnapping

Crusoe Gongbay

by J.R. Oppenheim and Thomas Romero-Salas sports@dailylobo.com

The UNM Police Department arrested a Lobo football player Monday on charges of kidnapping and rape. Crusoe Gongbay, a 20-year-old junior running back, turned himself over to the police shortly after 5 p.m. and faces two counts of criminal sexual penetration, one count of kidnapping and one count of conspiracy. Gongbay is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center with his bond set at $50,000. UNMPD also arrested a second suspect, 21-year-old Ryan Ruff, who is not a student at UNM. He turned himself in soon after Gongbay, and his bond is set at $100,000. The department is seeking a third individual in connection with the assault in question, which allegedly occurred April 13, but that person has not yet been identified. UNMPD public information officer Lt. Tim Stump said the third individual has been described as a 6-foot-tall, 180-pound male with dark complexion, short hair on the sides and longer hair on

William Aranda/ Daily Lobo UNM running back Crusoe Gongbay walks from the end zone during a game against Colorado State University on Nov. 16, 2013. the top of his head. UNM head football coach Bob Davie said in a statement that the team has suspended Gongbay indefinitely. “Once this process is complete and all the details have emerged, we will handle the outcome appropriately,” Davie said. “As this is an

ongoing situation, we will not be able to comment any further at this time.” On April 13, Stump said, a female student returned to her dorm room and told a community assistant that she was a victim of a sexual assault. Stump said the assault allegedly took place in a moving

Hawkes. Chief Gorden Eden said the woman pointed a gun at the officer who shot her, according to the article. Neither the suspect nor the officer has been identified and the officer was placed on leave, according to the article. Several speakers encouraged attendees of the meeting to attend a vigil later that evening and a protest to be held this morning for the woman who was shot. Others condemned the police department and Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry. Some called for the Police Oversight Commission to become an independent body with more power. Three former members of the POC spoke during public comment to the city councilors. Former Commissioner Jonathan Siegel, who resigned from the POC a week ago, said he was

sad to leave the commission. “Only when I found myself constrained by convoluted legal opinions — and only when, in junction with that, I felt I was not certain I was hearing independent analysis — did I feel forced to resign,” he said. Siegel said decisions by the city legal department divested the POC of necessary powers for performing oversight. “There is a mounting set of decisions coming out of the city legal department that, as far as I’m concerned, curtail and cut off the reasonable execution of proper oversight, and instead create barriers for ordinary citizens to work with an oversight body like ours,” he said. One such instance was when the department told the POC that

vehicle, but he did not provide further details of the incident. The victim was transported to a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Unit, and evidence was collected and sent to the state crime lab, Stump said. “Any incident like this we take as serious in nature, no matter what’s

going on around the world or here,” he said. UNM Dean of Students Tomas Aguirre said his office has met with the victim and her family, and has offered the victim any support and accommodations she might require.

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City Council under pressure after latest shooting By Chloe Henson

news@dailylobo.com @ChloeHenson5 After the third fatal shooting in five weeks committed by the Albuquerque Police Department, speakers packed Albuquerque’s City Council chambers Monday’s evening to express their disapproval of the department and the Police Oversight Commission. “In 2009, New Mexico became the 15th American state to abolish capital punishment,” said Tylina Hardy, 28, at the meeting. “Today, an APD officer shot a suspected car thief to death.” On Monday morning an APD officer shot and killed a 19-year-old woman who was suspected of auto theft, according to the Albuquerque Journal. The Albuquerque Journal identified the woman shot as Mary

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