Northern NM economy profits from LANL from Los Alamos Monitor
Joshua Montoya worked as a pipefitter when the thefts occurred. Montoya was arrested in July 2016, after the owner of an Española scrap metal yard gave investigators Montoya’s driver’s licence information and sales records of the transaction that also had Montoya’s personal information.
In court Wednesday, Montoya pleaded no contest to larceny. In exchange for his plea, Montoya was sentenced to three years probation. If he completes the three years without breaking any other laws, the felony conviction will be wiped from his record.
Montoya’s attorney, Tyr Loranger, said he was able to get a more lenient sentence for his client because there were others involved.
“There were some sympathetic factors in Joshua’s case,” Loranger said. “One of those factors was that the main culprit in that case was someone else. There was someone else who was responsible for what was going on. Josh was just an accessory. That was the fulcrum I used to convince the district attorney that this outcome was in the best interest of justice.”
Shortly after his July 9, 2016, arrest, Montoya also checked himself into an inpatient addiction treatment program, which also helped his case, Loranger said.
Police believe Montoya started taking the copper between May 31 and July 9 of last year.
Los Alamos National Laboratory officials initially reported a theft of copper fittings that occurred between July 9 and July 13. Investigators traced the stolen copper to Gallegos Scrap Metal LLC, where the shop’s owner, Tim Gallegos was able to show investigators receipts from sales Montoya made to his shop.
After a more thorough examination of the records, investigators from LANL and the Los Alamos Police Department determined that Montoya had been selling copper materials from LANL several times a week since May 31.
“(Gallegos) said that since this date, Mr. Montoya has sold 2,709 pounds of copper and brass to Gallegos Scrap Metal and was paid $3,474.95,” said Los Alamos Police Department Cpl. Jack Casias in his report. “Examination of one of the boxes showed a label which had ‘Los Alamos National Laboratory’ on it as well as ‘LANL SM-30 TA 60’ which is another technical area of the laboratory.”
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Joshua Montoya worked as a pipefitter when the thefts occurred. Montoya was arrested in July 2016, after the owner of an Española scrap metal yard gave investigators Montoya’s driver’s licence information and sales records of the transaction that also had Montoya’s personal information.
In court Wednesday, Montoya pleaded no contest to larceny. In exchange for his plea, Montoya was sentenced to three years probation. If he completes the three years without breaking any other laws, the felony conviction will be wiped from his record.
Montoya’s attorney, Tyr Loranger, said he was able to get a more lenient sentence for his client because there were others involved.
“There were some sympathetic factors in Joshua’s case,” Loranger said. “One of those factors was that the main culprit in that case was someone else. There was someone else who was responsible for what was going on. Josh was just an accessory. That was the fulcrum I used to convince the district attorney that this outcome was in the best interest of justice.”
Shortly after his July 9, 2016, arrest, Montoya also checked himself into an inpatient addiction treatment program, which also helped his case, Loranger said.
Police believe Montoya started taking the copper between May 31 and July 9 of last year.
Los Alamos National Laboratory officials initially reported a theft of copper fittings that occurred between July 9 and July 13. Investigators traced the stolen copper to Gallegos Scrap Metal LLC, where the shop’s owner, Tim Gallegos was able to show investigators receipts from sales Montoya made to his shop.
After a more thorough examination of the records, investigators from LANL and the Los Alamos Police Department determined that Montoya had been selling copper materials from LANL several times a week since May 31.
“(Gallegos) said that since this date, Mr. Montoya has sold 2,709 pounds of copper and brass to Gallegos Scrap Metal and was paid $3,474.95,” said Los Alamos Police Department Cpl. Jack Casias in his report. “Examination of one of the boxes showed a label which had ‘Los Alamos National Laboratory’ on it as well as ‘LANL SM-30 TA 60’ which is another technical area of the laboratory.”
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and created huge wealth inequalities and wealth inequialities are the cause of poverty therefore Los Alamos creates poverty in
Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado.
"How many logical fallacies, not to mention outright lies"
OMG, only a scientist would talk about things like "logical fallacies" whatever that means. Certain groups have manipulated the
language to benefit themselves. Logic can only take you so far in life, and we all know things that are not "logical" but are true, and to deny that means you are the liar. I feel sorry for you that your worldview is so limited that all you see is logical or not-logical arguments. Is art logical, is love logical, is justice logical, is what we all know in our hearts to be true logical? No and that is where you fail.
I don't work at LANL, but I grew up in New Mexico. We were poor when I did. That's common in New Mexico.
The fact is that Mew Mexico is a relatively poor state. It always has been, all fantasies of the Los Alamos Study Group aside. Sticking any significant federally funded activity into such a state creates economic inequality, not because its sucking up the local vitality, but because its creating a pocket of higher paying jobs. Kick out LANL, Sandia, and Kirtland, and New Mexico would be even poorer
June 1, 2017 at 10:48 PM"
That is a very ugly thing to say but is all too common an attitude by some in New Mexico. Did you ever think that your attitude is the reason for New Mexico's problems? No I suppose not.
Lastly, I know in my heart to be true that unicorns exist and therefore I am qualified to post on this blog. Another logical fallacy. See how that works?
Northern NM is famous for incompetent roofers so 11:45 clearly knows nothing about the subject.
You people are ugly and this whole thread just shows what is wrong with privileged attitudes of people at the labs who think they are better than everyone else.
No, it's not his/her attitude that the cause, it's "corruption, nepotism, incompetence, truancy, and drug addiction." I'll add to that, the rinse and repeat policies that have put this state waaaay behind it's neighboring states. I say move the Government work out and give New Mexico back to Mexico. This place just can't govern itself.
Or could be due to systemic racism that has created the lack of social mobility, wealth inequalities and lack of opportunities.
I'm another.
So are thousands of my coworkers.
You're the REAL racist here. PIG.
She refers to herself as a New Mexican.
So what is your point 4:53? Maybe you just like to toss smelly red herrings?
At the bare minimum, the state would do well supporting education and vocational training programs of all sorts for its residents. Instead of telling them that they are victims of "systemic racism" or that the reason for their problems is the "privileged attitudes of people from the labs who think they are better than everyone else".