ALBUQUERQUE, NM--- Attorney General Hector Balderas announces serial shoplifter, Athena Padilla, will remain in jail as her criminal cases move forward. Today, Metropolitan Court Judge Christine Rodriguez found that Athena Padilla had willfully violated her conditions of release and no conditions of release would ensure her compliance, and revoked her conditions of release. The Attorney General’s Office is now prosecuting Athena Padilla in two cases with twenty-one counts.
