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Roque Lucero, 40, of Santo Domingo Pueblo was scheduled to be arraigned Friday afternoon on charges of vehicular homicide, causing great bodily injury by vehicle, failure to render aid and reckless driving. However, when Judge Michael Vigil called his name, Lucero was nowhere to be found.
Assistant District Attorney Matt Cantou Clarke told the judge that investigators from his office would try to track down Lucero, who allegedly was driving drunk April 29 when he slammed into a car carrying Lobsang Lhalungpa and his wife, Gisela Minke, on St. Michael's Drive.
An arrest warrant that would require Lucero to put up a $25,000 cash-only bond has been active since Oct. 20, court records show.
Minke, who was injured in the accident, sat with a victim's advocate Friday in the courtroom awaiting the arraignment. She declined to speak with reporters after the hearing.
Efforts to reach Lucero on Friday were not successful.
Lucero was allegedly at the wheel of a 2005 Dodge pickup that police have said "shot out" onto St. Michael's Drive from the K-Mart parking lot and hit a Subaru station wagon driven by Minke. The four people in the truck fled the scene, though police captured two of them.
Those two and other witnesses to the crash have said Lucero was intoxicated at the time, police have said. Police found two open beers in the truck.
Lhalungpa died of internal injuries two days after the crash.
Investigators interviewed Lucero two days after the collision, police have said. The accident reconstruction and witness interviews took longer than expected, and police didn't turn over the case to the District Attorney's Office until late July, police have said. Lucero was indicted by a grand jury Oct. 16, according to online court records.
A month after the crash, Santa Fe police arrested Lucero for drinking alcohol outside a convenience store located not far from the same spot where the crash occurred, Santa Fe Deputy Police Chief Aric Wheeler said Friday.
At that time, an officer saw Lucero and another man drinking 12-ounce cans of malt liquor at 1899 St. Michael's Drive on May 31, Wheeler said. That is the location of an Allsup's convenience store. Lucero was booked into Santa Fe County jail May 31 for drinking in an unlicensed place and released June 2, according to jail records. The arrest occurred before Lucero was indicted for the April 29 accident that killed Lhalungpa.
At the time of the crash, Lucero had worked at the state penitentiary in Santa Fe for about three and a half months. He never showed up again at the prison and was fired.
Court records show Lucero pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated in April 1989 in Sandoval County Magistrate Court and again in April 1992 in Metropolitan Court in Albuquerque. Another DWI from January 1989 was dismissed in Metropolitan Court, records state.
In addition, police picked up Lucero four times between 2000 and 2003 and put him in protective custody at the Santa Fe County jail until he sobered up, according to online jail records.
Lhalungpa had lived in Santa Fe for 18 years. He was born in Tibet in 1926 and became a monk official under the 14th Dalai Lama. He was named one of Santa Fe's Living Treasures in 1998 for his efforts to keep traditional Tibetan culture alive.
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