{"id":70822,"date":"2025-08-07T03:52:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T03:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=70822"},"modified":"2025-08-07T03:52:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T03:52:44","slug":"fbi-arrests-ex-dem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=70822","title":{"rendered":"FBI Arrests Ex-Dem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"652\" height=\"799\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-203.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-203.png 652w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-203-245x300.png 245w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Do\u00f1a Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano and his wife, Nancy Cano, were arrested after a federal raid on their Las Cruces home. They are charged with evidence tampering for allegedly harboring Cristhian Ortega-Lopez, an undocumented immigrant linked to Venezuela\u2019s Tren de Aragua gang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ortega-Lopez, initially hired for home repairs, was later found living in their guesthouse. Authorities uncovered gang-related evidence and weapons, some tied to the Canos\u2019 daughter. Ortega-Lopez now faces federal firearm charges and could get 15 years in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joel Cano resigned in March and was permanently barred from judicial office by the New Mexico Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DHS Secretary Kristi Noem vowed continued action against illegal immigration and gang activity, while two DHS employees were recently caught leaking sensitive enforcement information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST IN: New Mexico judge Joel Cano and his wife have been arrested after they were caught housing an alleged Tren de Aragua member. <br><br>Cano recently resigned after authorities arrested 23-year-old Cristhian Ortega-Lopez.<br><br>&quot;The home of a former judge in Las Cruces was raided\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RjoZVD7LrA\">pic.twitter.com\/RjoZVD7LrA<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollinRugg\/status\/1915546273811488805?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=70795\">also read&#8230;.<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalnews24.press\/archives\/11465?fbclid=IwY2xjawMBASJleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE1WnpEbU5yZE9PSVpuMzg4AR7ry13m8ChhKkypReZwGbz0lP5Y0sf4cHwnB2UkpPfUzZOE-al3U29tGkUIQQ_aem_dUG0HmBq1DBx2lHGq6Z2sA#top\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00d7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Do\u00f1a Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano and his wife, Nancy Cano, were arrested after a federal raid on their Las Cruces home. They are charged&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70824,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70822\/revisions\/70824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}