Authorities: Missing hiker is found dead in Sandia Mountains

  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Police in Albuquerque say the body of a missing hiker has been found in the Sandia Mountains. They say the death of 40-year-old Gilbran Hernandez-Avila is being ruled as accidental. Police say the body was located Saturday. A missing person’s alert was issued for Hernandez-Avila on Sept. 15, two days he went hiking and sent his last known communication to his family. The search was a combined effort involving Albuquerque police, New Mexico Search and Rescue and State Police.