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Woman abandons daughter by being too intoxicated

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Gallup Police Department officers were dispatched to the 300 block of West Princeton June 21 to check on a blue van which had a flat tire. The license plate of the vehicle belonged revealed that it belonged to Lisamarie Manygoats, 36, of Brimhall, NM. Metro Dispatch had given out an attempt to locate on Manygoats earlier in the day in reference to her being under the influence of drugs or alcohol with her 9-year-old daughter in tow, according to the report filed by Officer Valerie Wilson.

Wilson found the van around 1 pm abandoned in front of a residence on Princeton.

“The van was parked about two and [a] half feet from the curb,” Wilson said in her report.

The right front tire did show damage from hitting a curb, according to the criminal complaint filed by Wilson.

Wilson asked Officer Andrea Tsosie to check the area for the woman with the child. While a tow truck was loading the van, Wilson observed the woman and child, matching the description, standing outside Third Street Tavern.

“Manygoats had an odor of intoxicating beverage [coming] from her person,” Wilson said in her report. “She had slurred speech, was swaying back and forth while standing.”

Manygoats was arrested and charged with abandonment of a child. The child first told officers that Manygoats was her aunt, but a friend of Manygoats told officers differently. She then told officers that her mom had fallen asleep twice while driving and had hit a curb. She also told officers that she hadn’t had anything to eat or drink, according to the criminal complaint.

Tsosie bought the child a meal from Subway out of her own pocket.