GARFIELD, N.M. (AP) - Dona Ana County sheriff’s detectives have arrested two suspects in connection with the shooting deaths of a couple in their Garfield home last weekend.
They say 29-year-old Luis Flores and 30-year-old Cristal Cardenas were taken into custody Wednesday afternoon in Las Cruces.
Authorities say the two are facing charges of murder, conspiracy to commit murder and criminal solicitation.
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Sheriff’s deputies and a Hatch police officer were dispatched to the home Sunday morning.
They found the bodies of 34-year-old Mario Cabral and 32-year-old Vanessa Rodriguez Mora.
Flores and Cardenas are being held without bond at the county Detention Center.
It’s unclear if either of them have a lawyer yet.
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