Murder suspect who cut off ankle monitor is on the run, New Mexico officials say

A needed homicide suspect is at massive in New Mexico, authorities introduced this week.

Joe Anderson, 41, was arrested and charged with first-degree homicide final 12 months, the Bernalillo County District Legal professional’s Workplace mentioned in a information launch revealed on Wednesday. Someday earlier, Anderson had reduce off his ankle monitor and remained on the run after county prosecutors requested that the district court docket situation a warrant for the person’s arrest, in accordance with the discharge.

Anderson is accused of killing one other man, Raymond Aviles, in southeast Albuquerque final August, CBS affiliate KRQE reported. Investigators have alleged that Anderson shot Aviles because the sufferer tried to flee the realm on a motorbike — which Anderson is suspected to have lent to Aviles, who didn’t return it to him — in accordance with the station.

Anderson was indicted and brought into custody in 2022, the district legal professional mentioned, however he was launched conditionally in January on a district court docket ruling that allowed for his discharge pending trial. Nonetheless, on Monday, a overview of Anderson’s case by the New Mexico Supreme Courtroom overruled the district court docket’s choice and known as for the person’s return to custody. 

The excessive court docket’s ruling prompted county prosecutors to request the amended arrest warrant from the district court docket Tuesday, simply earlier than studying that Anderson had eliminated his ankle monitor.

“That is precisely why we filed pretrial detention on this matter. Sadly this particular person has reduce off his ankle monitor and is within the wind,” mentioned Sam Bregman, the district legal professional in Bernalillo County, in a press release included in Wednesday’s information launch.

Anderson was beforehand convicted of voluntary manslaughter in 2016, for an alleged crime unrelated to the first-degree homicide cost he at the moment faces, “and has an in depth felony historical past,” the district legal professional mentioned. Regulation enforcement with the district legal professional’s workplace in Bernalillo County are being assisted by officers from different companies, which the workplace didn’t identify outright in its launch, as they proceed to seek for Anderson.

Authorities are asking anybody with information of Anderson’s whereabouts to report it to Crime Stoppers by way of telephone or on-line, the place nameless ideas might be submitted. They’re supply a $2,500 reward for related data.