(NM) Off-duty police officer charged in double-fatal crash on I-25

The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office reported the death of two individuals following a wrong-way head-on collision on I-25 early Saturday morning. Officials say the crash happened around 2:00 a.m. on southbound I-25, just north of Tramway.

When BCSO deputies arrived on the scene, they found a black Ford F-150 pickup and a black GMC Yukon that had been in an accident. The GMC had rolled over onto its driver’s side. A witness at the scene of the crash told deputies the pickup was driving northbound in the southbound lanes of I-25 with its headlights off and struck the GMC head-on.

The driver of the F-150 has been identified as 29-year-old Brandon Roybal Barber. Cuba Police Chief Manuel Romero has confirmed with KRQE Barber is a probationary police officer with Cuba police. The complaint states Barber was found by deputies walking around the scene disoriented. DWI deputies believed Barber to be impaired. Deputies found a half-full bottle of alcohol in Barber’s truck.

Barber has been charged with three counts of vehicular homicide, aggravated DWI, and possession of an open container. BCSO shut down all lanes of traffic following the accident but has since reopened traffic. Barber has been put on administrative leave pending an internal investigation.

(So the drunk off-duty cop lives, and the innocent victims die)



https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/wrong-way-driver-in-fatal-i-25-was-off-duty-police-officer/