Las Cruces Woman, 50, Booked on Charges of False Reporting and Failure to Appear

Allegedly... Dora Dearman, a 50-year-old resident of Las Cruces, was booked into the Doña Ana County Detention Center on July 27, 2026. She is being held without bond under booking number 2600005937. Records indicate she was taken into custody at Memorial Medical Center in Las Cruces on suspicion of filing a false police report and a misdemeanor count of failure to appear. A petty misdemeanor charge for a false police report typically involves the intentional communication of information to law enforcement that the individual knows to be untrue. The arrest at a medical facility suggests the jurisdiction of local municipal or county authorities. The failure to appear charge indicates a prior legal matter required a court presence that was not met. The charges are allegations, and Dearman is presumed innocent unless and until a court finds otherwise.