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Ex-policeman sought in grant fraud case.(Local News)

The Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque, NM)

| January 29, 2000 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Albuquerque Tribune. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Staff and wire reports

IN BRIEF

An arrest warrant has been issued for a former San Juan County commissioner, sheriff and Navajo police captain who is accused of wire fraud in handling a community-policing grant.

Billy Fred Hillgartner, 51, of Shiprock is accused of engaging in a scheme to defraud the U.S. Department of Justice, the Navajo Nation Department of Law Enforcement and Navajo, N.M., of $150,000 between Aug. 15, 1996, and Dec. 11, 1997.

Hillgartner, who was a captain with the Navajo Nation police in Shiprock during that time, was fired in September 1998.

Hillgartner failed to appear Thursday for an arraignment in …

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