ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Action 7
News is learning about the arrest of a former state police officer and his son
who were both arrested and charged with murder.
Jack McDowell and his son were
arrested last year, but the warrant was just unsealed.
Rio Rancho police raided
McDowell's home in January 2013 in connection with the murder of James Chavez,
35, who was killed a year and a half earlier.
McDowell and his son were
arrested and charged, but any clues about possible motives were sealed in court
documents until recently.
Our media partners at the Albuquerque
Journal obtained an arrest warrant affidavit, claiming McDowell was a gun
runner and meth dealer with ties to the Bandidos Motorcycle Gang.
Police said they always
suspected the pair, but it took a year and a half to get enough evidence.
McDowell's defense attorney
said his client is innocent. He also said the prosecution's witnesses are
unreliable, and he'll try to keep some of them from testifying.
One of them, he said, has a
separate case pending -- the high-speed chase that severely injured Corrales
police Officer Jeremy Romero.
In the murder case, court
documents said that witness and another were both hesitant to say anything for
fear of retaliation.
McDowell and his son are being
held on $1 million cash-only bonds in Sandoval County.
In 1984, McDowell was part of
Gov. Toney Anaya's security detail while working for state polic
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