A Zuni man robbed another man and then threatened him with a hatchet.

On March 2, Gallup Police Officer Darius Johnson was dispatched to Carquest, 1012 W. Maloney Ave., where he met up with a man who said a young couple, a man and a woman, had stolen $400 from him.

The victim explained that the couple approached him near the intersection of  West Aztec Avenue and Dean Street. The man began to fight with the victim, and that’s when he took his wallet from his pants pocket.

The man explained that he tried to chase after his assailant. He caught up to them, and that’s when the man, later identified as Alexander Quam, 18, from Zuni, N.M., swung a hatchet at him. The victim backed...

A Gallup woman admitted to smoking fentanyl after police found her with a stolen truck.

On Feb. 11, around 4:08 pm, Gallup Police Officer Daniel Brown was dispatched to St. Joseph’s Soup Kitchen, 450 N. Fifth St., because someone had called the Metro Dispatch saying that two people were sitting in a truck and they were possibly on drugs. The caller said the pair seemed to be arguing.

While he was driving to the soup kitchen, Metro Dispatch told Brown that the National Crime Information Center was reporting the truck as a stolen vehicle.

When Brown arrived at the scene, he found a tan Chevy Silverado pick-up truck. He saw a man standing outside of the truck’s driver side’s door...

A Lukachukai man broke a Gallup cannabis store’s window, but it wasn’t because he was upset about marijuana legalization.

On March 9, around 4:05 pm, Gallup Police Officer Julio Yazzie was sitting in his patrol car at the intersection of Ford Drive and Highway 66, when he noticed five people surrounding one man at the former Kim’s Imports Plus, 1011 E. U.S. Rte. 66.

When he approached the group, he found Herlton Seymour Chee, 39, from Lukachukai, Ariz. The other people around him told Yazzie that Chee had thrown a rock through a window at Red Barn Growers, 1005 E. Hwy. 66.

Chee agreed to talk to Yazzie in his police car. Once in the car, he said he wanted to talk to Yazzie’s...

Man gets tasered instead

Police ended up tasing a man from Window Rock after he kept acting like he was going to start fighting them.

On March 9, around 9:16 pm, Gallup Police Officer Matthew Strandy arrived at the Villa De Gallup II, 333 Klagetoh St., because a man had called in saying his grandmother had texted him telling him to call the police.

The man explained that his uncle was highly intoxicated, and that his grandmother was afraid to come out of her room.

When Strandy got to the apartment, the uncle, Keroy Bia, 38, from Window Rock, Ariz., opened the door. According to his report, Strandy could tell Bia was extremely intoxicated, and he became aggressive towards the...