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Serial burglary suspect caught

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After almost two hours of handling burglary calls and searching for a male subject in the Mossman area, Jeremy Henry, 23, OF Gallup was arrested on multiple burglary counts July 14.

According to the statement of probable cause, filed by Gallup Police Department Officer Matthew Ashley, officers responded to a call of a broken window at the New Mexico Gas Company on East Aztec in the early morning hours,.

While searching the area, Officer Victor Rodriguez “saw movement in the bushes, then he saw a male subject.”

Rodriguez ran after the man who had took off running eastbound from the area of Verdi Drive  and Aida Court. Rodriguez lost visual contact with the man.

While getting back to his unit, he came upon a vehicle with a window broken out.

“Officer Rodriguez went back to the area behind Verdi Drive and found a Sig Sauer 308 rifle laying in the bushes,” Ashley said in the statement.

The rifle turned out to belong to the owner of the vehicle whose window had been busted out. The owner informed police that there had been “other weapons” in the vehicle. The GPD K-9 unit was then deployed to check the area.

At approximately 6:33 am, Ashley wrote in his statement that he was sent to an East Aztec residence where another vehicle had been broken into.

At 6:42 am, Ashley said that he “noticed a male walking out from behind 1910 E. Aztec.” The man was acting suspicious, walking with his hands in his pockets and keeping an eye on Ashley. He matched the description of a man that Officer Chanelle Preston had seen in the area.

In the man’s possession were some of the items reported missing earlier, along with several additional items.

Officers went to the address found on an identification card, which did not belong to the man in question, and found a vehicle with the windows down. The owner was called out and found items missing from his vehicle as well as items missing from his girlfriend’s vehicle.

After giving a false name to police, the man was identified as Henry.

GPD Sergeant of Detectives Rosanne Morrissette commended patrol for the apprehension.

“Patrol did an excellent job,” she said.

Henry was arrested and charged with aggravated burglary, a second degree felony; three counts of burglary of a vehicle, a fourth degree felony; resisting, evading, or obstructing an officer; criminal damage to property, a fourth degree felony; and concealing identity.

Morrissette said that Henry is linked to all four burglaries that occurred that night and that he is currently suspected of more.