Board declines to reinstate officer cleared in wife’s death

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A state board has declined to reinstate a former Albuquerque police officer acquitted of killing his wife in 2013.

The Albuquerque Journal reports (https://bit.ly/2hkxVor ) that the New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy Board took no action on a request made Monday by Levi Chavez, who was asking that his law enforcement certification be reinstated.

The former officer was fired in 2011 following his indictment in connection with the death of his wife, Tera Chavez.

Chavez surrendered his law enforcement certification in 2013, the year he went on trial for the death. He was found not guilty.

Chavez says he believes he was only charged in his wife’s death because he was a police officer.

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Information from: Albuquerque Journal, https://www.abqjournal.com