Full story from "AMateur Radio Newsline": "Operating on a police department frequency without a license is going to cost a New Mexico resident $25,000. Amateur Radio Newsline's Norm Seeley has the details: -- The FCC has affirmed a $25,000 Forfeiture Order issued to Estevan J. Gutierrez of Las Vegas, New Mexico. This for what the regulatory agency terms his willful and repeated violation of Sections 301 and 333 of the Communications Act by his operation on a frequency without authorization, and his willful and malicious interference with licensed operations by an emergency service. On September 1, 2011, the Enforcement Bureaus San Diego Office issued a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture in the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars to Gutierrez for operation, without FCC authorization on 159.150 MHz. This is a frequency licensed to the Las Vegas, New Mexico, Police Department. He was also accused of willful and malicious interference with the Police Departments operations on that frequency. In response to the NAL, Gutierrez did not deny the violations. He did however request cancellation or reduction of the forfeiture amount based on his inability to pay. But in its decision to affirm the full $25,000 amount the FCC noted that Guiterrez produced no documentation to support his claim of an inability to pay. As such he was given the customary 30 days from the November 7th release of the forfeiture order to pay the amount in full. For the Amateur Radio Newsline, Im Norm Seeley, KI7UP, in Scottsdale, Arizona."