An investigation which took Gallup patrol officers, Emergency Response Team members, detectives and narcotics agents to 501 E. Pershing Avenue on the morning of June 25, at 8:22 am, led to the arrest of Dorinel Binns-Wallace, 26, and Alex Andria Martinez, 22, following a residential search related to narcotics.

Binns-Wallace was arrested and formally charged with four counts of possession of a controlled substance (fentanyl, cocaine, hydrocodone, suboxone) and unlawful use or possession of methadone.

Martinez was formally charged with two counts of possession of a controlled substance (fentanyl, methamphetamine).

Firearms were also seized from the residence. Formal charges are also...

CHRISTIAN CENTER STABBING
Thoreau, June 7

A man was stabbed outside the Mission Possible Christian Outreach Center on June 7.

McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Paul Davis Jr. was dispatched around 2:07 pm to the Mission Possible Christian Outreach Center at 93 State Hwy. 371 in Thoreau to investigate.

When Davis arrived, he saw a blue Ford Mustang sedan parked outside. He found a male victim from Thoreau lying on his back near the building. According to his report, the man had no shirt on and appeared to be sleeping.

Davis tapped the man on the shoulder. He was breathing, but didn’t respond. Davis noticed he had blood on his stomach and two small puncture wounds, one on his chest...

A Gamerco woman came home from the store one afternoon to find that a flier had been posted outside her house saying she poisoned cats.

The woman called Metro Dispatch saying that her neighbor was harassing her.

On June 3, around 3:13 pm, McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Jonathan Todachine was dispatched to 102 Ray Ave. in Gamerco.

When Todachine met with the woman she showed him a letter that had been taped to her gate.

The letter said: “100 and 102 Ray Avenue are poisoning animals. They suffer horribly for five days before they die, flies are eating their eyes and tongues before they are even dead. Don’t you even have a soul, poisoning animals is a felony under state and...

Michael Edaakie
June 8, 5:09 pm
Aggravated DWI

A call about a driver parked on the side of the road led Metro Dispatch to send Zuni Police Officers to the area around Mile Marker 30 on State Highway 53. McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Terence Willie found the SUV, a gray Ford Edge parked on the westbound shoulder.

Willie met with the Zuni officers, who told him they had responded to a call of a driver who was potentially intoxicated. They found the driver, Michael Edaakie, 40, of Zuni, at the scene and he became disorderly with them when they arrived. Edaakie was detained at the scene when Willie arrived.

The report stated Edaakie had bloodshot eyes and smelled of alcohol...