Las Cruces Man, 20, Booked Without Bond at Doña Ana Detention Center

Allegedly... Anthony Lopez, 20, of Las Cruces, was booked into the Doña Ana County Detention Center on October 21, 2025, according to jail records. The arrest location on the booking sheet is 1850 Copper Loop in Las Cruces, which is the detention center's own address. Jail records list a single felony count recorded only as "All Other Offenses," with no bond set. Federal court filings later reported by KVIA, CBS4 Local and the Albuquerque Journal identified Anthony Jacob Lopez, 19 at the time of a November 2025 report, as having been charged in U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico with illegally receiving a firearm while under indictment. Those filings describe an August 31, 2025, response by Doña Ana County Sheriff's deputies to a call involving multiple armed people, the recovery of a loaded handgun, and later search warrants on Lopez's Instagram account and cellphone that investigators said showed him with the same handgun and arranging its purchase for $600. According to those reports, Lopez was on a two-year deferred sentence out of Texas for smuggling of persons, with conditions barring firearm possession. It is not confirmed that the October 21 booking is the same defendant, but the age and hometown are consistent. These charges are allegations; Lopez is presumed innocent unless and until a court finds otherwise.