
Noreen Teel of the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions is taken into “custody” by Community Service Officer Myra Barnum Wednesday during the MDA’s annual Lock-Up fundraiser.
By GRACE MILLER
Daily Press Staff Writer
On Wednesday morning, Artesia Community Service Officers were on the move, sweeping the city and making stops at many Artesia businesses to pick up “jailbirds” nominated by their peers and business associates to serve time for the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s annual Lock-Up fundraising initiative.
The MDA conducted the 2014 Artesia Lock-Up at Pecos Diamond restaurant and began just before noon, with CSOs rounding up “suspects” and sending them on a fundraising frenzy, calling everyone they knew on their cell phones to help them raise the money to make bail. … For the rest of the story, subscribe in print and on the web.