It took three officers to get one drunk man into a patrol car at a local Albertsons. On March 31 around 6:39 pm, Gallup Police Officer Jarad Albert arrived at the Albertsons at 1702 East Hwy 66 after he heard about a drunk man inside a silver Jeep in the parking lot.

Albert parked his patrol car behind the vehicle. When he approached the driver side door, he saw a man drinking from a large cup. The Jeep was running.

When Albert knocked on the window, the man looked at him, while continuing to sip from his cup.

The man turned the car off and opened the window

Albert asked the man if he had a driver’s license, but received no answer. The officer began asking the man questions...

The Gallup Police Department swore in six new officers June 23.

They are from left: PSO Gabriel Lee, Officer Erik Yazzie, Officer Jose Morales, Chief Franklin Boyd (swearing in the officers), Officer Javier Sanchez, Officer Gilbert Gonzales, and Officer Maria Olivares. 

ALBUQUERQUE — Lyle Ryan Begaye, 44, of Tohlakai, N.M., an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation of Fort Defiance, Ariz., was sentenced June 2 in federal court to three years and 10 months in prison for assault resulting in serious bodily injury in Indian Country.

Begaye pleaded guilty on Nov. 2, 2020.

In his plea agreement, Begaye admitted to assaulting the victim on June 1, 2020, in Bernalillo County.

In the agreement it stated that Begaye became jealous and struck the victim with his fist approximately 30 times on multiple parts of her body — once for each letter in the first and last names of three men with whom he believed she was being unfaithful.

Begaye then physically...

As Gallup’s population continues to age, city administrators have begun looking at building a bigger senior citizen center, and Mayor Louis Bonaguidi said it could be ready as soon as 2023, or 2024 at the latest.

The city used to have two senior citizen centers, one on the north side of the city; Neighborhood Senior Center at 607 N. Fourth St. - and the other on the south side, Ford Canyon Senior Center at 908 E Buena Vista Ave. Both of the centers had been running for about 30 years, according to Bonaguidi, before the Ford Canyon Senior Center was shut down about four years ago.

Neighborhood’s senior program director Kimberly Ross-Toledo explained that the south side center was...