A woman from Church Rock was stopped by Gallup police July 13 after numerous reports about someone waving a gun out of the window of a red sedan traveling south on U.S. Highway 491.

Sheila Silversmith, 40, was booked for aggravated DUI, no driver’s license, no insurance and no registration.

Also in the vehicle was Luther Begay, 42. He was inside the vehicle at the time the car was pulled over at Fourth Street and Coal Avenue. He refused to get out when instructed to do so. So, a K-9 officer was deployed and apprehended him.

“Begay was booked on resisting and negligent use of a firearm,” GPD Capt. Erin Toadlena-Pablo said.

There was a third occupant in the vehicle. That...

Caught shoeless in a laundromat

Jeffrey Webster, 42, of Gallup, arrested July 10, was being held in custody at the McKinley County Adult Detention Center in Gallup.

However, on July 13, a male was reported missing from the jail. Deputy Clayton Etsitty was dispatched and followed the man who was walking without shoes, first near Tom’s Auto in Gallup, then near the Hill Crest Trailer Park and then toward 2424 E. Hwy. 66 at the Pronto Fina Gas Station. He was reportedly wearing a long sleeve shirt and jeans and entered the Pronto Laundromat at 2422 E. Hwy. 66 in Gallup, where he was identified and taken into custody.

Etsitty transported him to the McKinley County Adult Detention...

McKinley County Sheriff Deputy Ivan Tsethlikai, Jr. was dispatched to milepost 9 on State Highway 371 after being alerted to a fatal hit-and-run incident early on July 11.

While on-site, Tsethlikai was notified by Metro Dispatch of a vehicle in a traffic stop by the Navajo Nation Police Crownpoint District around milepost 20 on State Highway 371. The vehicle that was stopped matched the description of the vehicle that fled the scene of the incident.

Tsethlikai met Sgt. Tommy Rogers and Ofc. Albert Calanity, both of Navajo Nation Police, at the site where the vehicle that fled was in a traffic stop. Calanity told Tsethlikai he had Zachary Taylor Dendy, 26, of Lubbock, Texas, in the...

A criminal complaint filed by FBI Special Agent Cary Cahoon , who has primary responsibility for investigating major crimes that occur in Indian Country, says he was notified July 2 at about 11:50 am of a possible homicide at a residence in Shiprock.

Criminal Investigator Jerrick Curley said he found a woman (Year of birth 1974) deceased on the bedroom floor of her residence, with what appeared to be multiple lacerations and blood around her. She suffered trauma to her neck, back and chest area. The OMI pronounced her death at 5:30 pm on July 2.

He said her nephew, Tavor Tom, 18, of Shiprock,  had been involved in a single vehicle crash in the area of Nenahnezad, located on the...