On Christmas eve, around 8pm, Deputy Nicholas Lamendola of Taos County was responding to a call in Questa, New Mexico with lights flashing and siren engaged when a car at the side of a roadway pulled out in front of him at El Prado. As Lamendola's car spun and rolled, it badly damaged three cars in Orlando's New Mexico Cafe parking lot.
The car stopped "just inches" from the restaurant's patio which was packed for Christmas Eve dinner when the crash happened, said Christina Garcia, who was on duty at Orlando's then.
Beer cans were found in the deputy's car, but Taos County Sheriff Miguel Romero was adamant that Lamendola had not been drinking. "He had just borrowed the vehicle from another officer, and that officer had responded to open container calls," Romero said. "(Lamendola) wasn't drinking."
Lamendola, who suffered only minor injuries, was taken to Holy Cross Hospital in Taos where a urine test was performed, as required by department policy, Romero said. The test came back negative "for any kind of drug."
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