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LOCAL HERO ARRESTED IN HERGENRODER DEATH
PLUTO MCDOWELL HELD ON SUSPICION OF MURDER
by Jaime Romero
New Mexican Staff Writer
ESPANOLA, June 28 – The man who moved to Santa Fe and immediately became a statewide celebrity has been arrested by Rio Arriba police in connection with the death of industrialist Randolph Hergenroder.
The accused, Pluto McDowell, 18, is a young distributor for Hergenroder’s Pueblo Mineral Resources, a multi-level marketer of so-called “energy rich” potting soils and similar garden products. Deputies from the Rio Arriba Sheriff’s Department took him into custody Wednesday at Albuquerque SunPort on an arriving flight from Las Vegas.