Former Albuquerque Police officer sentenced for deadly off-duty motorcycle crash

Former APD officer sentenced for deadly crash while off-duty

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A judge sentenced a former Albuquerque police officer who pleaded guilty to charges for a deadly hit-and-run crash while off-duty. Ezekiel Florez was sentenced to 4.5 years in total but a judge suspended a year-and-a-half from his sentence and gave him another year-and-a-half on probation, putting his time prison down to a year-and-half. Florez was off-duty with a fellow officer on a motorcycle last May when he struck Daniel …

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Former Albuquerque Police officer sentenced for deadly off-duty motorcycle crash

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A former Albuquerque Department officer was sentenced to prison on Wednesday for hitting and killing a man while riding a motorcycle off-duty. Ezekiel Florez resigned from the department after hitting Daniel Trujillo on Central Avenue near Coors Boulevard in May 2025. Florez and his passenger, Krystal Garca, who was also an officer off duty, [...]