{"id":6071,"date":"2025-07-18T18:03:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T18:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6071\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T18:03:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T18:03:03","slug":"mma-fighter-diego-sanchez-arrested-in-albuquerque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6071\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA fighter Diego Sanchez arrested in Albuquerque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. \u2014 Police arrested MMA fighter Diego Sanchez for allegedly firing his gun while passing by a crash in Albuquerque.<\/p>\n<p>According to a criminal complaint, a white Jeep was passing by a crash Thursday on westbound I-40 at University Boulevard when officers heard a loud bang from a gun the passenger fired. Officers followed the Jeep and pulled it over in the area of Sixth Street and the frontage road. <\/p>\n<p>An officer put the passenger in handcuffs and took him into custody. They identified him as Diego Sanchez. <\/p>\n<p>Sanchez allegedly told police there was a gun in the backseat of the vehicle but denied firing a shot from the vehicle. However, the driver allegedly told police Sanchez did fire a gun and that he started laughing afterward.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say, while glancing in the vehicle, they found three live rounds on the front passenger side of the vehicle and a gun in the back pocket of the driver\u2019s seat. <\/p>\n<p>Sanchez now faces charges of shooting at or from a motor vehicle and negligent use of a firearm. He is now in the Metropolitan Detention Center.<\/p>\n<p>The crash slowed I-40 to a crawl Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"634\" height=\"499\" data-id=\"895756\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-13.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-895756 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 634px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 634\/499;\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"637\" height=\"507\" data-id=\"895753\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-895753 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 637px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 637\/507;\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"636\" height=\"515\" data-id=\"895754\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-895754 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 636px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 636\/515;\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. \u2014 Police arrested MMA fighter Diego Sanchez for allegedly firing his gun while passing by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-6071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}