A Gallup man, jailed since March at the McKinley County Adult Detention Center, was given an October 24 trial date after a run-in with a McKinley County sheriff’s deputy, records show.
Patrick Barbone, 21, went before 11th Judicial Court Judge Lindy Bennett May 11 to give his side on an incident involving aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, negligent use of a deadly weapon and carrying a concealed deadly weapon charges, according to jail records.
Deputy Lorenzo Guerrero of the MCSO held Barbone at gunpoint after Barbone threatened a security guard at the Flying J Truck Stop in Jamestown. The report states that Guerrero encountered an intoxicated Barbone who refused to put his hands up in the air and who was carrying a CO2.177 BB gun, according to the police report on the matter.
Barbone has a bond amount on the assault charge for $5,000. He has no bond set on the weapons charges.
“I proceeded to take the safety off my rifle and continued to give verbal commands to him,” Guerrero wrote in the police report. The report states that Guerrero was ultimately able to secure Barbone and take the man to jail.
A security guard at the truck stop said Barbone came into the restaurant looking drunk and she called Metro Dispatch to have someone come and pick him up. That’s when Barbone lifted his shirt and displayed the BB gun. The female security guard was trying to call for assistance when Barbone told her, “Don’t you dare do that,” the police report states.
By Bernie Dotson
Sun Correspondent
