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Gallup Police Department prepares for COVID-19

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The City of Gallup Police Department is taking proactive measures to serve all members of the community in the most comprehensive manner during the novel coronavirus COVID-19 and beyond. In order to better respond to the community’s health and safety, steps are being implemented to reduce in-person interaction for...

Couple, associates arrested for vicious murder

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Gallup has seen some gruesome murders over the years but a case recently filed in state district court involving Adrianne Cellicion and Glen Lonkesion may be one of the worst in recent years.

It all began on Aug. 14, 2018 when James Svinareff came by the Gallup Police Department and said he wanted to report a homicide involving a man named Kale Holden that happened at a Gallup motel two or three weeks before.

According to Svinareff, Cellicion had gone to see Holden to sell him drugs and he sexually assaulted her.

She said some time after that occurred, she and her boyfriend, Lonkesion, along with someone she knew as Big Chief, were walking along when Holden approached her and...

Four suspects facing jail time for gas station robbery

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Four Native American men, three of them teenagers, are now facing up to 12 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to robbing a gas station store south of Gallup last April.

Armed with pistols, the robbery served them less than $50 in liquor.

The four - Julian Silversmith, his son, Aurelius Eddie, and two associates, Kevin Marquez and Karl Thompson - are now waiting to be sentenced by a federal judge in Albuquerque.

Although prosecuted in federal court, the investigation that led to their arrest was handled by deputies and investigators for the McKinley County Sheriff’s Office.

According to Sheriff’s reports, three men entered the Mustang Store in Vanderwagen about...

Not a Border Patrol agent

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Minn. Man convicted of false impersonation

ALBUQUERQUE – James Christopher Benvie, 45, of Albany, Minn., was convicted of false impersonation of a Border Patrol agent when a federal jury brought back a verdict of guilty March 3.

Benvie was a member of a group dressed in camouflage and military-style clothing, with badges, masks, pistols and assault rifles who established what the FBI called a “camp” at the Southwest border in Doña Ana County. He was considered a leader and spokesperson for the group, according to public court records and evidence at trial.

The U. S. Attorney’s Office of the District of New Mexico says Benvie misrepresented himself as a Border Patrol Agent...

State police helicopter rescues lost motorcyclist

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CIBOLA COUNTY - When a motorcyclist got lost and stuck in the mud near Mt. Taylor, it was a helicopter that pulled him out.

It was 7 am on March 8 when the New Mexico State Police Special Operations Aircraft Section was contacted to assist in locating the 40-year-old male who was lost near Mt. Taylor in a wilderness area northeast of Grants, N.M.

The motorcyclist had been out since the prior evening. His cell phone battery had died, and it was reported he did not have proper clothing for the weather and might be without food and water.

The New Mexico State Police Helicopter, call sign ABLE 7, consisting of a pilot and two tactical flight officers, was launched to the area to locate...

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