help me persuade Tiki to get out of Godforsaken Arizona

[Lady Cop]

Uh oh, and just think He is one of New Mexico's finest.

stupid fucker. he's done there is no way the liberals in Santa fe will put up with that shit.

Bert Lopez was honored in the Capitol Rotunda in May 2010 as the New Mexico State Police District 1 Officer of the Year.

In July, he received a Challenge Coin, a select commendation his department bestows on officers identified as having gone above and beyond the call of duty.

Now, he's on paid administrative leave and facing possible disciplinary action for an incident that has caused embarrassment to the department. Images surfaced Monday — and were posted on websites across the country by Tuesday morning — showing him in uniform apparently having sex in broad daylight with an unidentified woman on the hood of her Honda outside the gate of a county-owned ranch south of Santa Fe.

New Mexico State Police Chief Robert Shilling would not release the identity of the officer in the images captured by a motion-sensor digital camera that the county had installed in an effort to record vandals and other trespassers entering the vacant property.

No one has been charged with a crime in connection with the incident, which apparently was only witnessed by a Chihuahua at the scene before a county employee spotted the images of the officer and the woman, and then showed them to the Santa Fe County sheriff in an effort to figure out which agency's uniform the officer was wearing.

The New Mexican has confirmed from multiple sources that the officer is Lopez. Attempts to reach Lopez for comment Tuesday were unsuccessful.

Police confirmed that an internal investigation has been completed and that the officer has been on paid leave for the past several weeks.

Lopez, who often worked the night shift as a patrol officer, was involved in making numerous DWI arrests around Santa Fe County.

Sources familiar with the incident, who asked not be identified, have said there is no indication the sexual encounter was related to Lopez's law-enforcement activities.

State police have not said whether Lopez was on duty at the time of the incident.

News of the incident was first leaked to the media two weeks ago, around the time the Santa Fe County employee discovered the images. Sheriff Robert Garcia released the images Monday following public-records requests from several media outlets.

In the images, the officer's duty belt, with gun still holstered and handcuffs attached, remains around his waist.

"I was asked to identify what agency the officer belonged to, and I was happy to say it wasn't one of my guys," Sheriff Garcia said. "Then, as a courtesy to state police, we took to the chief's office the images we had."