Quote:On Aug. 12, the man told police that a couple of days earlier Smotherman asked him to deliver marijuana to his southwest Albuquerque home. But when he got there, the man said he was knocked out and bound with duct tape, according to a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court.

Through tears the man told police that Smotherman, Overhand and three other people whose names he didn’t know, including Smotherman’s girlfriend, were there while he was beaten with a bat. He told police Smotherman believed he owed “$2,500 worth of drug money,” but he didn’t know what he was talking about.

Then, the man said, he was dragged into another room and forced to look at a screen with a picture of a man he recognized as his best friend, John Soyka.

“On the screen, what (the man) described, was a picture of a male laying in the back of a truck on a blue tarp, wearing a white shirt and blue jeans, dead,” the officer wrote in the complaint. The body had been sexually mutilated and blood was all over the body.

Eventually the man said Overhand was convinced he didn’t know anything about the debt and he and his girlfriend drove him to a northeast Albuquerque home. The girlfriend was driving Soyka’s gold Toyota Corolla, according to the complaint.

“Overhand then offered (the man) pizza and beer and (the man) stated he just wanted to leave,” the officer wrote in the complaint. A couple of hours later, Overhand drove the man to a parking lot near Sandia Preparatory School off Osuna and Edith NE and dropped him off.

Soyka’s friend told police she hadn’t seen him since the day before his friend had been kidnapped.

https://www.abqjournal.com/1050013/polic...cture.html

Actually, under New Mexico law, offering the victim pizza and beer serves as a complete defense to most crimes. Look it up...

Well this story gets interesting:

Quote:ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Albuquerque man convicted of killing his parents in a high-profile case almost 30 years ago is now wanted by police.

It’s been about seven years since Mitchell Overhand got out of prison.

APD is looking for Overhand in connection with a gruesome kidnapping and beating on Albuquerque’s westside.

Overhand is accused of working with others to beat and torture a man at an Albuquerque house for hours.

Overhand is 45 years old now. He was just 16 when deputies arrested him in 1988 for shooting his parents, Karen and Peter Overhand.

The teen was sentenced to 40 years in prison for shooting them while they slept at their Paradise Hills home.

Investigators said after the shooting, Overhand beat his mother with a hammer until she died and then buried them both in the backyard before throwing a party at the house.

Overhand got out of prison seven years ago and was off probation about two years ago.

http://krqe.com/2017/08/18/albuquerque-m...idnapping/