Section 30-16-9 - Extortion. - New Mexico Statutes

30-16-9. Extortion.

Extortion consists of the communication or transmission of any threat to another by any means whatsoever with intent thereby to wrongfully obtain anything of value or to wrongfully compel the person threatened to do or refrain from doing any act against his will.   

Any of the following acts shall be sufficient to constitute a threat under this section:   

A.     a threat to do an unlawful injury to the person or property of the person threatened or of another;   

B.     a threat to accuse the person threatened, or another, of any crime;   

C.     a threat to expose, or impute to the person threatened, or another, any deformity or disgrace;   

D.     a threat to expose any secret affecting the person threatened, or another; or   

E.     a threat to kidnap the person threatened or another.   

Whoever commits extortion is guilty of a third degree felony.