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Police detective gets strawberries, gets reported to CYFD

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A quick trip to the market for a box of strawberries landed a Gallup police detective on report.

McKinley County Deputy Nocona Clark was sent to the Gallup Walmart at 1650 W. Maloney Ave. at 6:22 pm on April 24. Dispatchers told him there was a child left alone in a car at that address.

Several people became involved. Clark...

Update on NMSP officer-involved shooting in McKinley County

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GALLUP — As has been previously reported, the Gallup Police Department was dispatched to the Redwood Lodge Motel in Gallup on June 5, a few minutes before midnight upon learning of a report of two men in a white Dodge truck with a firearm.

Officers located the truck and two men and a pursuit began when the truck drove around the motel parking lot, nearly struck the patrol unit, and merged onto New Mexico Statre Road 118.

The two men in the truck flashed their headlights and drove into opposing lane traffic before throwing objects at officers from the bed of the truck.

A Gallup Police Officer terminated the chase by firing at least one shot toward the truck.

The Dodge continued...

WEEKLY DWI REPORT

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Chelcee Pete

June 3, 8:28 pm

Aggravated DWI

McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Terence Willie was dispatched to an address on Mentmore Road in reference to property damage after Metro Dispatch said that a vehicle had struck part of a fence and was parked off the road.

Willie searched the area and found the suspect vehicle about a mile and a half west of Carbon Coal Road and Mentmore Road. he made contact with the driver, Chelcee Pete, 28, of Fort Defiance, Ariz. who said she was trying to change her vehicle’s tire because it had burst while she was speeding.

After noticing Pete showed signs of being intoxicated, including bloodshot watery eyes and an odor of alcohol on her...

Weekly Police Activity Reports

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WINDOW BREAKER

Thoreau, June 16

A Thoreau man was arrested for criminal damage to property after a store clerk refused to sell him liquor.

The clerk told McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Paul Davis Jr. that a man came into the Thoreau Speedway Store about 9:25 pm on June 16 and attempted to buy liquor. Because he was intoxicated, the store clerk refused.

The man then became very upset, said the clerk, and stormed out of the store. As he left, he raised his right hand into a fist and hit one of the windows in the front door and shattered it.

By the time Davis arrived at the area, the man was no longer in the area but using the clerk’s description, Davis was able to find him. He...

Gallup Police issue missing person alert

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The Gallup Police Department is asking for the public’s help in locating Tiffany Erica Gray, 35, of Gallup.

She was last seen on June 20 at Days Inn West, 1603 W. Hwy. 66, in Gallup. She was wearing a white shirt and black pants at the time she disappeared.

Gray is described as 5’3”, 160 pounds with brown eyes and waist-length black hair. She has a “DITTO” tattoo on her right tricep and three dots below her right eye.

Gray was last seen driving a black 2015 Chevy Blazer with a cracked windshield and a feather hanging from the rear-view mirror. Her intended destination is unknown.

If you have any information on the whereabouts of Tiffany Erica Gray, please contact the...

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