Two months later, family still searching for missing Coyote man

When Joel “Deano” Valdez said he was going to do something, he would always do it, according to his family.

So when Valdez, 36, a Marine veteran and journeyman lineman for American Power, didn’t come home to Coyote on Sept. 18 after a job in Silver City, everyone close to him knew something was amiss.

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