Sergio Quintana is an award-winning reporter with more than 10 years experience in broadcast journalism.

"I come to the Triangle after spending three years on the air with Southern California's legendary station KFWB News 980 in Los Angeles," he says.

While in L.A., he earned two prestigious "Golden Mic" awards. The first for breaking-news coverage of a small plane that crashed into a Hollywood apartment complex. "I was the first reporter on the scene and led team coverage of the disaster throughout the day," he says.

He earned his second award for business news coverage of a local supermarket owner who closed his decades-old store because he could no longer afford workman's compensation insurance.

Sergio got his start in the news business in his home state of New Mexico. He worked for all three network affiliates there and won several citations from the New Mexico AP Awards and the New Mexico Broadcasters Association.

"Working in New Mexico was always an adventure because you could be surrounded by the smoke and flames of a forest fire one day, then reporting on mysterious cow mutilations in Roswell the next, then following an international spy scandal the next day," he says.

His hard-hitting news style put him on the front lines of the Cerro Grande Fire that tore through Los Alamos and the drama of Wen Ho Lee, the former Los Alamos National Labs employee who was wrongfully accused of giving secrets to the Chinese government.

When Sergio is not digging up stories for NBC17, you can find him at a local coffee shop reading a book or the newspaper. "I'm a bit of a news junkie. Politics is a personal favorite," he says. He also enjoys working out and travel -- lots and lots of travel.