Domestic Violence Offender from Alamogordo Sentenced For Unlawful Possession of a Firearm

ALBUQUERQUE – Orlando G. Lucero, III, 44, of Alamogordo, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to three years of probation including eight months of home detention with location monitoring for violating the federal firearms laws.

Lucero was arrested on March 25, 2015, on a criminal complaint charging him with unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition on Feb. 17, 2015 in Otero County, N.M.  The criminal complaint alleged that Lucero was prohibited from possessing firearms or ammunition because of his conviction on a misdemeanor domestic violence charge. 

Lucero was subsequently indicted on June 24, 2015.  According to the indictment, Lucero was prohibited from possessing firearms or ammunition because he previously had been convicted of misdemeanor crimes of domestic violence, battery against a household member and aggravated assault against a household member with a deadly weapon, in the 12^th Judicial District Court in Otero County.

On Aug. 21, 2015, Lucero pled guilty to the indictment and admitted that on Feb. 17, 2015, he was in possession of a firearm and approximately 167 rounds of ammunition.  Lucero further admitted that at the time he was prohibited from possessing firearms and ammunition because of his prior convictions on domestic violence offenses.

 This case was investigated by the Las Cruces office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Probation and Parole Division of the New Mexico Corrections Department and the New Mexico State Police.  Assistant U.S. Attorney Maria Y. Armijo prosecuted the case.