Gallup Police Department Narcotics Agents, Detectives and the Emergency Response Team served a search warrant at 715 West Logan Ave. in Gallup Oct. 21.

The search warrant was related to an investigation into the alleged trafficking of heroin, methamphetamine and oxycontin pills.

Juan O. Arellanes, 36, of Gallup, was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance, Fentanyl and Codeine a fourth-degree felony for both drugs.

Arellanes was booked into the McKinley County Adult Detention Center.

Gallup Police Department Narcotics Agents served a search warrant at Desert Skies Motel room #12 in Gallup Nov. 18.

The search warrant was related to an investigation into the alleged trafficking of Heroin. Paul Acevedo, 60, of Gallup, was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance, heroin and methamphetamine, a fourth-degree felony for both drugs.

Alexa Gomez 30, of Gallup, was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance a narcotic drug, a fourth-degree felony and concealing identity, a misdemeanor.

Acevedo and Gomez were booked into the McKinley County Adult Detention Center.

Two people traveling four miles over the speed limit got stopped at Lendnation at 815 E. Hwy. 66 on Oct. 20 around 9:16 am. They both got out of a white Ford Expedition with Texas plates and fled from McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Brandon Salazar. But one of them fell.

The driver, Carlos Ramirez-Becerril, 33 of Elendorf, Tex., was detained. While Ramirez-Becerril sat in the sheriff’s unit, Salazar cleared the Ford SUV and found a gift bag of marijuana in the back seat and four large duffel bags in the interior of the vehicle.

The driver, who needed his Miranda Rights translated, let it be known that he would not answer any questions, but did give written consent to search the...

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Large black trash bags, supposedly full of air were what greeted McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Brandon Salazar when he stopped a Toyota Sienna with a California license plate after the driver failed to maneuver to the left lane when passing a construction worker on the right shoulder of the highway at exit 33 on Interstate 40 eastbound Oct. 19.

When Salazar questioned the driver of the blue car, the answers he got didn’t make sense to him and seemed inconsistent. So, after the man later identified as Christopher Tucker, 38, of Amarillo, Tex., informed him the black trash bags were full of air, Salazar asked again. This time he phrased it differently. He asked Tucker how...