Serving the High Plains
Serving the High Plains
Tucumcari police officer Shaun Slate blocks the entrance to U.S. 54 from Tucumcari Boulevard after an accident Wednesday on the highway near Interstate 40. The police chief and county sheriff said their officers are taking a few more precautions during the coronavirus pandemic but are maintaining their usual law-enforcement duties.
Local law-enforcement agencies are more mindful of the coronavirus pandemic and taking more precautions against it, but they're not backing off with their usual duties, either.
"We're business as usual. We have to be," Quay County Sheriff Russell Sha...