Decades of run-ins with law enforcement revealed

Anthony Samora’s records from the Albuquerque Police Department and the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office reveal decades of run-ins with law enforcement investigating claims of sexual harassment and rape. Here is an abbreviated timeline of Samora’s records history:

1986-91, AGES 20-24:

At least five DWI arrests resulting in four guilty pleas and 32 alcohol-related incidents, such as loitering then publicly urinating at a children’s event at a community center and drunkenly harassing grocery shoppers in a store.

False imprisonment arrest. A 7-year-old boy told police he was playing in his yard when Samora, who was drunk, dragged him a few trailers away and pulled his pants down before a neighbor sprayed Samora with Mace. He was arrested for false imprisonment. No indication of what happened to that case.

JULY 1992, AGE 25:

1993, AGE 26:

Accused of child abuse: A 7-year-old female relative told school counselors Samora beat her. The case got lost in police records and was never charged. The same female in 2008 told a social worker that, on the night of the beating, Samora also sexually molested her.

JUNE 1995, AGE 27:

A young man was seen running from Samora’s trailer screaming, “I’ll kill you.”

MARCH 1999, AGE 31:

Accused of criminal sexual penetration (CSP), false imprisonment. A small and slender 16-year-old boy told police he accepted a ride from Samora, who drove him around town before sexually propositioning and assaulting him in his truck. Samora was not arrested or charged.

MAY 2001, AGE 33:

Stabbed in the neck at his home by an unknown male. Does not cooperate with police. Later tells another teen boy that he was once stabbed by a 16-year-old boy sleeping at his house.

APRIL 2002, AGE 34:

Accused of kidnapping, CSP. A 14-year-old boy told police he was walking near San Mateo and Truman, and Samora threatened him to accept a ride by showing him a gun and grabbing his arm. Samora then drove the boy around the city, took him to his trailer, had sex with the him several times and told the boy he would live there with him. The boy escaped, called police and completed a rape kit. The boy committed suicide five months later; prosecutors charged Samora, but the case was dismissed after the defendant’s death.

FEBRUARY 2003, AGE 35:

Accused of patronizing a prostitute, harassment. A 17-year-old boy told sheriff’s deputies that Samora stopped him several times as he walked home and offered him money to have sex with him. The boy reported Samora told him that he picks up other teenage boys and pays them for sex. And he told the boy he was stabbed in the

neck by a 16-year-old who was sleeping at his house. Samora is never charged in this case.

JUNE 2003, AGE 35:

Pleaded to CSP. Samora offered a ride to a 14-yearold boy who was walking home from counseling after a taxi failed to pick him up. Samora instead drove him around town until he was disoriented, took him to his house and raped him, then dropped him off near the boy’s brother’s house. The boy called police and completed a rape kit. Samora was charged with CSP and kidnapping. He spent about 1½ years in jail awaiting trial, pleaded no contest to a lower level CSP charge and was effectively sentenced to another 1½ years in prison and sex offender registration.

MAY 2006-08, AGES 38-40:

Out of prison, on parole, on sex offender treatment and registration, including a GPS monitor used for high-risk offenders. Failed to pay fees and restitution, take sobriety and drug tests, got fired by a sandwich shop for making sexual gestures and exposing himself to fellow employees, and then got violent when fired. Sent back to jail several times for probation violation.

MAY 2008, AGE 40:

Convicted of CSP and kidnapping. Samora was on sex offender monitoring when another 16-year-old boy, this one with dwarf tendencies and borderline mental retardation, told his family a man with a GPS monitor named Anthony offered him a ride home from a bus stop, drove him around town in his truck and then raped him. The boy’s family helped him find Samora on the sex offender website. Detectives corroborated the story with Samora’s GPS monitor log and statements Samora made during sex offender treatment about “raping a midget.” He is charged, convicted by a jury and sentenced to life in prison as a repeat offender.

2009, AGE 41:

Accused of CSP and child abuse. Samora’s female relative told police she was raped by him as a child. Prosecutors pursue the case, but drop it in late 2016.

AUG. 2016, AGE 48:

The state Supreme Court overturned the 2008 case and sent it back for a second trial. A jury acquitted Samora.

DEC. 21, 2106:

Samora was released from New Mexico Department of Corrections.

DEC. 27, 2016:

Samora registered in New Mexico as a sex offender at a relative’s home near Juan Tabo and Interstate 40.