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    VIDEO: Man arrested, accused of threatening district court judge in Cibola County

    By Jordan Honeycutt,

    2024-04-16

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    GRANTS, N.M. (KRQE) – News 13 has obtained video of the moment a man was arrested after being accused of threatening District Court Judge Amanda Sanchez Villalobos. The video shows a Cibola County deputy responding to the county courthouse where he found a man walking around the building with an axe.

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    Deputy: “Put the axe down. Step away from it, step away from it. Let me see your hands, get down on your knees.”

    The sheriff’s office identified that man as John O’Brien. The deputy took O’Brien to the security area to search him. He was accused of first-degree murder and threatening a judge.

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