Gallup has seen some gruesome murders over the years but a case recently filed in state district court involving Adrianne Cellicion and Glen Lonkesion may be one of the worst in recent years.
It all began on Aug. 14, 2018 when James Svinareff came by the Gallup Police Department and said he wanted to report a homicide involving a man named Kale Holden that happened at a Gallup motel two or three weeks before.
According to Svinareff, Cellicion had gone to see Holden to sell him drugs and he sexually assaulted her.
She said some time after that occurred, she and her boyfriend, Lonkesion, along with someone she knew as Big Chief, were walking along when Holden approached her and asked if she knew where he could score some more drugs. She told him she didn’t.
When he left, she said she told the other two that this was the man who sexually assaulted her. They devised a plan to get back at him. She called him and said she acquired some drugs and told him to meet her at her motel.
When he did, she said the dealer was in the bathroom. When he went in there, her boyfriend was waiting for him. Holden was tied and beaten. After holding him for several days, he was killed and his body was wrapped in a tarp which was placed in a dumpster outside the Oasis Restaurant.
Cellicion was asked about the report she sat on his face and she suffocated him. She denied this but said she did sit on his head one day and heard a pop. But she said he was still breathing and was returned to the bathroom.
Lonkesion was also interviewed by police and said he was with friends during that timeframe. He was arrested after the interview on an outstanding warrant.
Cellicion and Lonkesion are facing charges including murder in the first degree, kidnapping, robbery and conspiracy.
Svinareff and Joe are also facing charges as accessories for helping dispose of the body.
No bail information is available for Cellicion or Joe. Lonkesion was transported to DOC on Jan. 31. Svinareff is in custody pending payment of a $5,000 cash or surety bond.
