The retirement comes the same day as an interview was scheduled with the Internal Affairs Task Force, according to police.

An Albuquerque police lieutenant placed on leave in a sprawling DWI corruption probe decided to retire before meeting with detectives on the matter.

KRQE Investigates Reporter Ann Pierret sat down with Albuquerque Police Department Chief Harold Medina to discuss how officers were able to get away with their scheme in the DWI Unit scandal. “I look at what I know and how it was generational,

From 2008 through 2023, federal prosecutors in New Mexico say, Albuquerque police officers conspired with a local defense attorney, Thomas Clear, and his investigator, Ricardo Mendez, to make DWI cases disappear in exchange for bribes.