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...

A chase near downtown Gallup and into a nearby neighborhood led to several juveniles being pulled over and one getting charged.

Gallup Police were having a briefing near downtown early on Aug. 13 when Officer Julio Yazzie spotted a white Toyota RAV4 traveling south on Third Street at a high rate of speed with several people hanging out of the windows.

Yazzie got to his unit and followed the SUV onto Mesa Avenue and then Fourth Street, where he found the vehicle near the intersection of Morgan Avenue. He pulled over near the SUV and found several people inside. As Yazzie activated his unit’s emergency lights to conduct a traffic stop, the Toyota took off on Fourth Street.

Multiple...

Gallup firefighters battled a blaze Oct. 18 at FASSCO Auto Repair, 105 Mine Run St.

Fire Deputy Chief Nathan Emerson said the call came in around 3:11 pm and all stations within the city responded, as well as off-duty firefighters.

Emerson explained that there was an explosion at the repair shop, and it took until sometime between 6:30 pm and 7 pm to extinguish all of the hotspots in the area.

He described the roof of the body shop as compromised, and the building itself as "totaled." He also said there were two vehicles parked in the two bays inside the repair shop that may have escaped fire damage.

The nearby Burger King was advised to shut down due to smoke. It has since reopened...