From the Santa Fe New Mexican:
The chief judge of New Mexico’s largest state court was arrested Saturday on charges of drug possession and evidence tampering after being stopped near a DWI checkpoint, police said.
W. John Brennan, the well-known judicial leader of the state District Court in Albuquerque, appeared “extremely intoxicated” when he was pulled over just after midnight, police spokeswoman Trish Ahrensfield said.
Officers found what they believed to be cocaine in the vehicle, she said.
The judge had tried to evade the DWI checkpoint.