Federal prosecutors say the city's police department was the main focus of a 15-year bribery scheme that also involved the sheriff's office and the state police.

KRQE News 13 has learned one of the officers who resigned last year connected to the federal investigation into the DWI Unit scandal now works for the New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department.

The scandal, referred to by prosecutors as the "DWI enterprise," implicates Bernalillo County sheriff's deputies and New Mexico State Police officers as well as Albuquerque police. Prosecutors allege certain law enforcement officers participated in a yearslong scheme to arrange for drunken-driving cases to be dismissed in exchange for cash.

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – With the devastating Palisades Fire still smoldering, Lisa Pelton and some of her neighbors in Mandeville Canyon received an unpleasant notice from their bank: their home equity lines of credit were being slashed. “I was appalled,” Pelton told KTLA 5 News on Thursday. “I thought it was unconscionable what they did. […]