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Yah-ta-hey store burglarized

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Deputy Paul Davis, Jr. was dispatched to Family Dollar, #26 Hwy. 264 in Yah-ta-hey, N.M. Nov. 5 to respond to an alarm called in by a business security company. Upon his arrival at 5:26 am, he found a broken window near the front entrance on the south side of the business.

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730.5 pounds of marijuana seized

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The New Mexico State Police seized 93 pounds of marijuana and drug paraphernalia Oct. 29 while doing a safety cab inspection on a 2019 Commercial Motor Vehicle at the Gallup Port of Entry, west of Gallup. They arrested driver Corey Green Thomas 49, of Cedar Hill, Tex.

Within the next three days, there were two separate incidents in which CMV drivers were arrested after safety inspections at the Gallup Port of Entry. State Police officers discovered 491 pounds of marijuana inside the trailer of one vehicle and 146.5 pounds of marijuana inside another. The two drivers picked up on Oct. 30 and Nov. 1 were Zheng Kuang, 30 of Baldwin Park, Calif., and Lekang Wang, 34, of Flushing, N.Y.

Weekly Police Activity Reports

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ASSAULT

Ya-ta-hey, Oct. 5

A Yah-ta-hey man was arrested on multiple charges of assault on health personnel after he reportedly threatened three health professionals at Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital.

Gallup police were called to RMCH on Oct. 5 about 2 pm because of complaints about dealing with one of the hospital’s patients, Carlos Shorty, 45. Shorty had been transferred to RMCH the day before by officials at the Gallup Indian Medical Center for a mental health evaluation.

Police were told that during the day Shorty had tried to run away, back to a group home where he had been living.

A nurse at the hospital said when she told him to stay in his room. He told her to mind...

WEEKLY DWI REPORT

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Terrance Manygoats

Oct. 6, 3:51 am

Aggravated DWI (first offense)

Gallup Police Officer Iris Pinero said she was dispatched to mile marker 22 on Interstate 40 in connection with a car hitting the bridge at Munoz Overpass.

When she got there, she found Terrance Manygoats, 18, of Rock Springs who immediately told her, “I’m not going to lie. I had a couple of drinks.” He later admitted that that couple of drinks was actually a 12 pack of Budweiser.

She said Manygoats showed signs of being intoxicated and walked toward her in a belligerent manner. He then started talking, but was not making any sense. She said she asked him how he ended up there and he replied, “You...

School board hopeful has baggage

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A bench warrant has been issued against a former candidate for the Gallup-McKinley County School Board.

According to New Mexico court records, a bench warrant was issued on Oct. 25 by Grants Magistrate Judge Johnny Valdez after Olin Kieyoomia failed to show up for a hearing.

Kieyoomia, who lost to Kevin Mitchell in the Nov. 5 school board election, had been given a citation for driving on a suspended license. He pleaded not guilty to the charge and was scheduled to have a hearing on the matter Oct. 25.

The only record of a DWI charge against Kieyoomia is from Feb. 2007. He was also charged with careless driving and resisting arrest in that same incident.

A year later, he entered a...

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