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MON: U.S.House passes Albuquerque Indian School Act, + More.House passes Albuquerque Indian School Act - Danielle Prokop, Source New Mexico A measure to return three tracts of land from the former Albuquerque Indian School campus to a trust for New Mexico’s 19 Pueblos passed the U.S.House this week and advanced to its first U.S.Senate Committee.The federal legislation, titled the Albuquerque Indian School Act, would transfer 10 acres of a former boarding school to the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, which provides a museum, cultural programming and events serving the state’s 19 Pueblos.Monique Fragua (Jemez Pueblo), the president and CEO of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, said the land would be used for an entrepreneur complex, and would also include light industry and manufacturing spaces.Lead sponsor U.S.Melanie Stansbury, who represents New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District, issued a statement noting that this week’s congressional actions brought the delegation “one step closer” to making the transfer “a reality.” The bill received a hearing Wednesday in front of the U.S.Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, during which co-sponsor U.S.Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) expressed his support for the bill.The committee has not yet scheduled a vote on the bill.Albuquerque Indian School was part of a network of federally run schools that removed more than 18,000 Native American children from their families between 1819 and 1969.Children faced forced labor, assimilation, abuse and death.Zuni, Navajo and Apache children were buried in unmarked graves in Albuquerque.The Albuquerque Indian School closed in the 1980s.Members of New Mexico’s U.S.Congressional delegation said the return of land is more than just a land transfer.“It is about putting a small but important piece of land back where it belongs — with New Mexico’s 19 Pueblos,” lead sponsor U.S.Martin Heinrich (D-NM) said in a statement.“The development of these under-utilized parcels of land will create jobs, foster entrepreneurship, and expand business services for Pueblo communities and the broader public.” In a statement, co-sponsor U.S.Teresa Leger Fernández, who represents New Mexico’s 3rd Congressional District, said the land transfer transforms “a painful history into a future built on cultural sovereignty, opportunity, and respect.” Man charged with hate crime in window-smashing at synagogue, Jewish Community Center - Matthew Reisen, Albuquerque Journal An Albuquerque man is charged with a hate crime and police are seeking to seize his guns after he allegedly smashed the windows at a synagogue and the Jewish Community Center within a half-hour span Tuesday.Rex Crofton, 25, is also charged with desecration of a church and two counts of criminal damage to property over $1,000.He was booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center on Wednesday.His family could not be reached and it was unclear if he has an attorney.Prosecutors filed a motion to detain Crofton until trial."Defendant wanted to bring rage and violence to a place of peace and comfort, and was fortunate to only damage security doors," according to the motion."We cannot know what kind of destruction or injury Defendant would have caused if he had been able to enter the building." On Thursday, an Albuquerque police officer petitioned for an Extreme Risk Firearm Protection Order to remove several firearms, including rifles and handguns, from Crofton's home, according to court records.The officer cited the vandalism and past domestic violence cases against Crofton along with his reported diagnosis of bipolar disorder and multiple personality disorder.In an interview with an FBI agent, Crofton's family said he began to express "extreme antisemitic views" in the past year and had most of his social media accounts banned due to such posts.Relatives told the agent that, an hour before the vandalism, Crofton was "in a state of mania" and said he was "going to kill Jews," according to court records.Relatives told the agent that a half-hour after the vandalism he texted them "I just hit two synagogues in 5 minutes," then added "send the cops my way I'd love to kill all of them." About 4:30 p.m.Tuesday, a 911 call came in reporting that a man smashed the bullet-resistant front doors of Congregation Albert synagogue on Louisiana NE, just south of Montgomery, according to a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court.The rabbi told officers that a man arrived in a silver car, smashed the windows and "flipped off" the synagogue before leaving.Police said the facility's director estimated the glass doors would cost between $100,000 and $200,000 to replace but could not access surveillance footage.FBI agents arrived and told the officer their "presence was no longer required." About 10 minutes after the first call, a second 911 call reported that a man with an ax had broken the front doors of the Jewish Community Center on Wyoming NE, just south of Academy.Witnesses told police a man in a silver car began attacking the front doors with a sledgehammer before fleeing from security.A security guard told them they chased the man into the parking lot and used pepper spray on him before he drove off, according to the complaint.The security guard estimated the damage to the glass at around $40,000.Police said surveillance video showed a man speed into the parking lot and begin striking the front doors with "an unknown object" that officers believed was a crowbar.Detectives ran the license plate of the car and it came back as registered to Crofton.Surveillance video of the suspect matched the description of Crofton, according to the complaint, and the car was caught on a license plate reader several blocks away from Congregation Albert, minutes before the vandalism.Drug probe uncovers child sexual abuse material on lawyer's laptop, feds say - Colleen Heild, Albuquerque Journal To prove he didn't knowingly smuggle an opioid into a New Mexico prison in March, an Albuquerque criminal defense lawyer agreed to open up his cellphone and computer files to FBI scrutiny.As a result, longtime attorney Brian Pori now faces a more serious charge: possession of child pornography.Late Friday, the New Mexico Supreme Court suspended his license to practice law, at least temporarily.The latest developments came after federal investigators searching for evidence of Pori's alleged drug trafficking involvement made a startling discovery on Pori's Dell laptop computer: dozens of video images of prepubescent children in sexual acts with adult males and multiple sexual images of naked or partially clothed men with children, according to a criminal complaint filed May 21 in U.S.District Court in Albuquerque.Pori is set for a detention hearing in Las Cruces on Tuesday after an initial appearance last week before U.S.Magistrate Judge Damian Martínez on the federal child pornography charge.Attempts to reach his attorneys weren't successful Friday.It's another twist of fate for Pori, who first came under law enforcement scrutiny March 11 while making a routine visit to see criminal defendant clients at the Cibola County Correctional Facility near Milan, west of Albuquerque.At the time, Pori said in court records, he was winding down his 38-year career as a defense attorney and former assistant federal public defender representing indigent defendants.He is a graduate of Yale Law School.Before he arrived at the prison, Pori contended a client's relative had asked him to deliver a pair of eyeglasses the client needed for reading.But corrections officers searching Pori's belongings discovered a stash of Suboxone, a medicine used to treat opioid addiction, sewn into the lining of the glasses case.Pori was subsequently arrested and jailed overnight in a segregated room of the facility before being released on a state charge of smuggling contraband into the prison.He claimed he was an unwitting dupe in the trafficking conspiracy.The smuggling charge was later dis