A man was charged with burglarizing a Ruidoso jewelry store during the South Fork Fire nearly two years ago. They said ...

New Mexico State Police announced that DNA evidence has resulted in charges being recently filed against a man accused of burglarizing a jewelry shop during the Ruidoso wildfires of 2024.

There was plenty of evidence at Johnson Jewelry on Sudderth Drive — none better than the DNA that went to the FBI laboratory.

We always said we were land rich and cash poor. Since the fire, we don’t even have the land.” Besides fire and flood damage ...