Active shooter situations took center stage at the Gallup McKinley County School District board meeting Oct. 4.

McKinley County Undersheriff James Maiorano III gave a presentation about how the sheriff’s office educates GMCS staff about active shootings.

Before COVID-19, the protocol involved three elements: a PowerPoint presentation, takedown drills in which the GMCS staff learns things like how to lock a classroom down, and how to barricade a door, and then the sheriff’s department does a full-blown drill with the staff only.

That is followed by an analysis of how the staff performed and how the safety team could  have improve their response.

According to Maiorano, a safety...

The body of a 62-year-old Arizona man was discovered outside the Home Depot at 530 Kachina St. in Gallup on the afternoon of Oct. 8.

Gallup Police were called to the scene just before 4 pm and found the man unresponsive. Emergency units pronounced him dead.

The man is identified as Roger Teller, of Chinle. His cause of death has not been determined. Investigators do not suspect foul play. Next of kin have been notified.

NEVER MIND MY FACE. JUST GET MY MONEY BACK.
Gallup, Aug. 15

A man who suffered a 3-inch laceration to his left cheek, a large abrasion to his forehead and a mark next to his right eye, didn’t want medical attention, but called the police because his bag was stolen.

The man said he was jumped by three people who stomped on his face. When Gallup Police Officer Daniel Brown arrived near the Hacienda Motel, 2510 E. Hwy. 66, the man refused to say who had attacked him and would not give a description. Instead, he said, “it’s all good.” He did tell Brown that one of the three had brass knuckles.

The victim said a brown backpack that held about $187 in cash was stolen from him. A...

Valerie James-Antonio
Aug. 14, 11:36 pm
Aggravated DWI

On his way out of the El Rancho Hotel, Gallup Police Officer Julio Yazzie saw a tan pick-up truck driving the wrong way on the street. The truck turned west onto Aztec Avenue from Ford Drive and then into the eastbound turn lane while going westbound. Yazzie got behind the truck after it returned to the westbound lane. Then, after it turned north onto Navajo Drive, he conducted a traffic stop near the curb.

He met the driver, Valerie James-Antonio, 46, of Gallup. Antonio told Yazzie she was following her uncle in the truck in front of her. Yazzie noted she had bloodshot eyes and looked as if she spilled a drink on the front of her...