Dec. 28—The of city Santa Fe’s Public Works and Utilities director has been arrested on a felony larceny charge.
John Dupuis, 42, who was appointed to his position in February 2023, was booked into Santa Fe County jail at 4:20 a.m. on a charge of larceny over $500 but not exceeding $2,500, a fourth-degree felony.
Few details were immediately available Saturday. Neither a Santa Fe police spokesperson nor interim City Manager Randy Randall said they knew anything about the circumstances.
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“We really do not have any other information,” Randall wrote in an email to The New Mexican. “We are very hopeful this is some sort of misunderstanding.”
“The city will cooperate with any criminal investigation and will also do its own administrative investigation,” Randall added in a follow-up email.
As of Saturday afternoon, no bond had been set, according to the jail’s inmate lookup system. The only document available on the state’s public court records website was a public safety assessment that showed no prior violent convictions or failures to appear in court and recommended he be released on his own recognizance.
Dupuis was arrested on a charge of aggravated drunken driving in 2019, when he was the county’s utilities division director, stemming from his refusal to take a chemical test. That charge was dismissed, according to a filing in a related case in which Dupuis challenged the suspension of his driver’s license stemming from the test refusal.
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