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PEEING IN PUBLIC

7/29, GALLUP

Westbound on Wilson Avenue near Andy’s Trading Company, 612 Wilson Ave., while attempting to find suspects involved in a fight at the Third Street Tavern, Gallup Police Department Officer Ryan Blackgoat noticed a bystander waving. Blackgoat pulled over and noticed that the bystander, who smelled strongly of alcohol, was peeing.

When Blackgoat asked Leroy Bitsie, 33, to sit in his police unit, Bitsie refused and “stood there still in a[n] aggressive fighting stance at me.”

When Bitsie continued to refuse, the officer pushed his back to get him inside the vehicle, but Bitsie was aggressive and Blackgoat deployed his spray. Bitsie resisted handcuffs until Officer Daniel Brown arrived, and Bitsie was cuffed.

Bitsie was booked on charges of disorderly conduct; lewd, immoral, or obscene acts; and resisting, evading, or obstructing.

KNIFE FIGHT

7/27, GALLUP

GPD Officer Ronnie Gonzales was dispatched to 1111 W. Lincoln Ave. in reference to a fight involving several subjects and a knife. At the scene, a motorist waved Gonzales down and told him a male suspect walked into 1103 W. Lincoln Ave.

At the residence, Zacharry James Lee, 22, came outside and said, “Those guys tried to beat me up for no reason.”

Gonzales cuffed Lee, who was intoxicated, and brought him to the scene of the fight.

At the scene, a subject told Gonzales that Lee had been trying to “shank me” and a female subject. The female victim confirmed that Lee had called to her from the 1103 Lincoln residence and began to chase her with the knife when she ran away from him. Others verified that Lee had wielded a knife; a supporting officer found the weapon at the residence.

Lee was booked for aggravated assault.

SKATEPARK SHAKEUP

7/26, GALLUP

GPD Officer John Gonzales was dispatched to the area of 700 Old Zuni Road in reference to a fight at the skate park. Another officer had detained Matthias Castillo, 22, but Sheldon Scott, 20, had run away; Gonzales and supporting officers chased him down in the parking lot of Allen Theaters Aztec 5.

A victim said he was in the skate park with his family when three men came up to his car. Castillo hit the front windshield with a skateboard and broke it. According to the victim, when he exited the car, the men — Castillo, Scott, and Quinten S. Williams, 24 — attacked him.

When the victim’s wife exited the car to help him, one of the suspects grabbed her phone and smashed it. They threw rocks at the car, where the children were sitting.

The suspects were booked on charges of aggravated battery; abandonment or abuse of a child; criminal damage to property; battery; and resisting, evading, or obstructing an officer.

BOMB THREAT

7/25, GALLUP

McKinley County Sheriff’s Officer Deputy Paul Davis, Jr. arrived at the 11th Judicial District Court, 207 W. Hill Ave., and was notified of a bomb threat. The courthouse was being evacuated.

A female court clerk had received a call over the court’s main line from a male with a Hispanic accent who said there was a bomb in the building that was going to go off in seven to 10 minutes. According to the victim’s statement, the caller sounded like he was in his 20s.

No suspicious items were found.

MEAN TO MAMAS

7/23, GAMERCO

MCSO Deputy Roxanne King was dispatched to 7 Grand Canyon Trail Park in reference to domestic dispute. At the scene, a woman said her grandson was in the house fighting with his wife.

King found Mitchell W. Colwell, 28, outside the back of the house telling his wife, who was holding her two-week-old baby and crying, to stop. Colwell said he’d gone to a neighbor’s house to have some drinks, and when he came home his wife was upset at him.

He said his wife pushed him, “then I grabbed her by the shoulders and put her on the couch in the living room. That’s it.”

The victim said her husband came home drunk, and blocked her from getting away, so she pushed him. Colwell then “grabbed me and we both went to the floor wrestling.”

The victim said Colwell kicked her in the back. Colwell’s grandmother said she saw him kicking the victim on the floor. When the grandmother told Colwell to stop, he picked up a pole, “grabbed my wrist with his right hand a twisted it before letting go,” she said.

Colwell was booked on charges of battery on a household member, battery, and criminal damage to property.