Overview
- Police in Socorro, New Mexico, arrested Sanchez after a Sept. 7 convenience-store call that led officers to stop a man who appeared intoxicated and to halt field sobriety testing for his safety.
- At the police station Sanchez recorded blood-alcohol readings of 0.17% and 0.18%, more than twice New Mexico’s legal limit of 0.08%, according to the incident report and booking records.
- He was booked at 5:17 p.m. and held without bond in the Socorro County Detention Center while his probation officer was notified of the possible violation.
- The new charges matter because Sanchez was placed on five years of supervised probation in March after pleading guilty in a July 2025 case that alleged he fired a gun from a moving vehicle.
- Sanchez has previously acknowledged substance-use and mental-health struggles and reported being in treatment, and the next steps are likely probation-revocation proceedings or further prosecutorial action.