AG Bondi: Arrested New Mexico Judge Took TDA Member’s Cell Phone and Destroyed It with Hammer to Protect Him

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BONDI: “So Judge Cano, soon to be former Judge Cano, got -- he got -- his charges were just unsealed. He's charged with obstruction. He is charged, he admitted post-Miranda, he took one of the TDA members' cell phones, himself, took it, beat it with a hammer, destroyed it and then walked the pieces to a city dumpster --“
SMITH: “Wow.”
BONDI: “-- to dispose of it to protect him. The wife also is charged with destroying evidence.”