DRUGS AND A TELEVISION SET ARE AT THE CENTER OF AN EARLY MORNING MURDER IN LAS CRUCES … 3-PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED THIS MORNING (MON) AFTER GEORGE CURSIE STUMBLED TO A NEIGHBOR’S HOME FOR HELP. LAS CRUCES POLICE WERE CALLED TO A HOME JUST TWO BLOCKS FROM DOWNTOWN AFTER THE NEIGHBOR CALLED 9-1-1. CURSIE DIED WHILE BEING TRANSPORTED BY MEDICAL HELICOPTER. INVESTIGATORS SAY 47-YEAR-OLD ANGEL SAMBRANO AND 31-YEAR-OLD MICHELLE BURCHETT WENT TO CURSIE’S HOME WITH THE INTENT OF STEALING HIS TELEVISION. THE INVESTIGATION FOUND THAT 49-YEAR-OLD PAMELA QUESADA DROVE THE COUPLE TO CURSIE’S HOME AND WAITED WHILE SAMBRANO AND BURCHETT GAINED ENTRY INTO THE HOUSE. POLICE SAY SAMBRANO AND CURSIE STRUGGLED AND SAMBRANO STABBED CURSIE IN THE CHEST. DETECTIVES ALSO FOUND — THE TRIO TOOK THE TV TO A HOME AND EXCHANGED THE TV FOR NARCOTICS. OFFICERS ARRESTED ALL THREE AT A LAS CRUCES MOTEL. SAMBRANO AND BURCHETT HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH FIRST DEGREE MURDER WHILE QUESADA WILL BE CHARGED FOR HER PART IN THE CRIME.
