BERNALILLO, N.M. (AP) A former mistress and suggested alibi of a former Albuquerque police officer accused of killing his wife says she doesn't remember when he arrived to her house before his wife's body was found. Deborah Romero told jurors Wednesday that she couldn't recall how late Levi Chavez arrived to her home the day before Chavez says he found Tera Chavez dead from a gunshot wound.
Prosecutors say Levi Chavez shot his wife with his department-issued gun in 2007 at their Los Lunas home, and then tried to make her death look like a suicide. They say Chavez killed his wife in part because she discovered he staged the theft of their truck for insurance money.
Defense attorney David Serna pressed Romero about previous statements Romero made to investigators that Levi Chavez came to her Albuquerque home around 1 a.m.
