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Armed man robs teen downtown Police say tattooed suspect aimed gun at girl, demanded money in broad daylight By Robert Nott
The New Mexican
An armed robber put a gun against a teenage girl’s throat and demanded all of her money Monday afternoon in a downtown parking lot near the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
The girl, who was not harmed, told police that after she gave the man $20, he told her not to tell anyone and ran off in the direction of the Santa Fe Plaza. She immediately reported the incident to the police, giving a detailed description of the suspect. The robber is described as about 6 feet tall and thin, with a dark complexion and short, dark hair. He is in his late 20s or early 30s and wore black sunglasses, white or gray basketball shorts and a black T-shirt with the sleeves ripped off.
The teen told police that at one point, the man took off his sunglasses, and she noticed he had tattoos on his face and neck. She said he spoke with an accent that sounded as if Spanish might be his native language. The weapon is described as a thin, medium-size, black, automatic handgun. The girl, who volunteers at the O’Keeffe Museum, said the robbery occurred after she got into her car shortly before 3 p.m. Monday.
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Israel buries slain teenagers Tens of thousands of mourners attend funerals as national cry for revenge grows. PAge A-3
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Residents faced with choice to stay or go as smoky Diego Fire grows
Gary Johnson
The former New Mexico governor says his company, Cannabis Sativa Inc., makes products that will ‘change the planet for the better.’
Trying to gauge the threat
Johnson to head marijuana startup Former governor named CEO of firm specializing in pot products By Russell Contreras
The Assocaited Press
ALBUQUERQUE — A Nevada-based startup that plans to sell medical and recreational marijuana products named former New Mexico governor and U.S. Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson as its CEO and president, the company announced Tuesday. The announcement came as Cannabis Sativa Inc. said it had acquired marijuana research business Kush while company officials work to navigate changing state laws on marijuana and potential challenges from the federal government, which still views marijuana as a controlled substance. Johnson said he hoped to expand Cannabis Sativa into a major marijuana business and intends to work out of New Mexico to help develop products that are legal in states like Colorado and Washington. “I generally believe this is changing the planet for the better,” said Johnson, who will be paid $1 a year and receive equity in the company. “It also is a bet on the future. … We think we have the crème de la crème of marijuana products.” Johnson, who owned a construction company that helped build Intel Corp.’s Rio Rancho plant before entering politics, said his company will make marijuana-based oils aimed at helping children with epilepsy. The two-term governor also said it will make cough drop-like products for recreational use. “Couple of things hit you when you try the product. One is, wow, why would anybody smoke marijuana given this is an alternative?” Johnson said. “And then secondly, it’s just very, very pleasant. I mean, very pleasant.” In addition, Cannabis Sativa announced Tuesday it named Kush’s founder, Steve Kubby, as its chairman. Kubby was the 1998 Libertarian Party nominee for California governor. The company still is working to determine what its limitations are under federal law, which is in conflict with Colorado and Washington, Johnson said. However, Johnson said he’s betting more states and the federal government eventually will allow recreational use of marijuana. “I think in 10 years, for the most part, the U.S. will legalize marijuana,” Johnson said. “And what the U.S. does, so does the world.”
The Diego Fire, burning less than 8 miles south of Coyote, had scorched more than 3,400 acres by Tuesday night. INSET: Jeremiah Rosethorn, who has lived in Coyote for about two years, voices his concerns about the fire Tuesday outside the community’s post office. He and his wife plan to stay in their home for now. PHOTOS BY JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN
By Uriel J. Garcia and Staci Matlock The New Mexican
COYOTE eavy smoke hovered over this small Northern New Mexico town in the Jemez Mountains on Tuesday afternoon, but many residents here said they felt safe even as the Diego Fire 7 miles away grew to more than 3,000 acres in heavy, dry timber. Jeremiah Rosethorn and his wife, Corine,
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who have been living in Coyote near the mountains for the past two years, said they felt isolated and uninformed about the fire’s dangers. They noticed heavy smoke late last week, which since had come and gone. “This morning, there was so much smoke you couldn’t see or breathe,” Corine Rosethorn said Tuesday. The couple said they didn’t know about a community meeting held Monday night by fire officials at the Coyote Elementary
Water fetches record prices in parched Calif. Economists say cost has grown tenfold in 5 years By Garance Burke
The Associated Press
As a third consecutive dry summer forces farmers to fallow fields and lay off workers, three water districts in the state’s agricultural heartland are making millions of dollars by auctioning off their private, underground caches to the highest bidders. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO
SAN FRANCISCO — Throughout California’s desperately dry Central Valley, those with water to spare are cashing in. As a third parched summer forces farmers to fallow fields and lay off workers, two water districts and a pair of landowners in the heart of the state’s farmland are making millions
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of dollars by auctioning off their private caches. Nearly 40 others also are seeking to sell their surplus water this year, according to state and federal records. Economists say it’s been decades since the water market has been this hot. In the last five years alone, the price has grown tenfold to as much as $2,200 an acre-foot — enough to cover a football field with a foot of water. Unlike the previous drought in 2009, the state has been hands-off, letting the market set the price
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School, and they have been piecing together information about the fire by asking local post office employees. For now, they plan to stay in their Coyote home until neighbors, who have been through forest fires in the past, recommend they leave, the couple said. Coyote, with a population of about 120 residents, is about 70 miles north of Santa Fe. The community is in a rural, mountainous area with many of its houses, scattered up to half
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Modas Repertory Workshop performance With choreography by Robert Moses and dancers ages 16-25, 7 p.m., Greer Garson Theatre, Santa Fe University of Art and Design, 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, no charge, 473-6439.
Today Partly sunny; thunderstorms possible in the afternoon. High 82, low 57. PAge A-6
Obituaries Augusta “Gussie” Hoerdt Flanagin, 77, June 28 Lois Ann Geary, 84, June 28
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