I fled to the shelter from New Mexico with my four-year-old daughter. A few days into our stay we were locked between two security gates. Finally we were let back into facility but the office was vacated. At some point a staff member ran outside frantically and announced that there was an intruder on site and directed clients to barricade in our quads. Hours later, I was met by two Lubbock police officers entering my quad. One asked me my name and arrested me. All he would say was the warrant was for felony assault. They wouldn't say anything more. They refused to allow me to arrange for care of my child. They refused to tell me where my daughter would be going. All they would say was arrangements for my daughter had already been made. The warrant was a NM misdomenor, it was a tactic used to obtain my daughter, but I was held with no bond, no access to a judge, classified as a felony.
I was completely railroaded at this "shelter". My daughter who was completely in my soul custody was transported without my knowledge or consent to New Mexico. I was held without bond on a felony charge of assault. NM Cyfd orchestrated the event with WPS from my home state NM. No bond, no judge. 18 days later I finally saw a judge at an extradition hearing in Lubbock. I pled to the judge that I had written both states trying to locate my child with no success and no response. It took the judge 5 hours and two attorney generals to locate my child. She was a ghost child in the system. I was immediately released from custody .NM CYFD quickly removed themselves from the situation, CONVENIENTLY, AFTER they used their authority (without a case) to help obtain physical custody of my daughter. It has since become a matter of money. I'm at a complete loss. I have no access to legal representation. The matter has been moved into district court. I have never had opportunity to attend because the trickery involved in this situation is never-ending. I surrendered myself in New Mexico and waiting my arrangement a hearing was held without my knowledge, one dirty tactic after another. There are no programs to assist someone in my position. $3500 to retain counsel. My state offers absolutely no help. I have been denied complete access to my daughter. No Christmas, no birthday, no phone calls. I have been accused of being a drug user but not given the opportunity to drug test. My daughter has never been away from me before. I have not seen her in over a year. WPS never once even considered this to be a tactic for an abuser (with money and connections) to obtain a child, but that is exactly what it was. WPS lied to me, misled me and assisted in my false arrest. These people aided in exactly the opposite of what they claim to stand for. Please beware of this place.
Hi my name is Raquel Bugarin, I was in WPS program from April 2021-Aug. 2,2021. I was told by a lady in the intake interview that I would be able to stay 1 yr in this program as long as I did what I needed to do and be registered with work force solutions. Well, reasons that I do not really know I was terminated from the program early. I was just told because a roommate was not comfortable and I was not cooking for her. Coordinator for counseling, hotline supervisor and the person above them that was a coordinator for social referral asked me to leave because I was creating a hostile environment. I never caused any problems. Personally I do not think most of the staff do not understand there job professionally. They did not believe my domestic violence interview and that I needed a safe place from my abuser.