THROUGH THE WINDOW

Jan. 5, Gallup

A 30-year-old Pinedale man was charged with aggravated battery after he reportedly threw a rock through a window, hitting a young boy.

Gallup Police Officer Alana Bradley said she was dispatched on Jan. 5 to a residence on Romero Circle, where she met Elvera Curley, 44, and her 13-year-old son who was holding a towel to his head.

Bradley was told that Lester Hosteen Jr., 30, had thrown a rock through the window, hitting her son in the head. Bradley said she saw a bump on the boy’s head. Hosteen, Curley said, was her son-in-law.

Hosteen was located on Fifth Street by another officer. Bradley said she went over there to talk to him. When she got...

Sherry Cayaditto

Jan. 6, 3:01 pm

Aggravated DWI (first offense)

It began as a call to Metro Dispatch from Sherry Cayaditto’s sister who said she was intoxicated and driving with two males. The description of the car was given to those on patrol and the vehicle was found on State Highway 564.

Cayaditto, 38, of Gallup, was driving. Gallup Police Officer Francie Martinez said the smell of intoxicating liquor was being emitted from inside the vehicle. Cayaditto told Martinez that the two men had poured beer on her and that she had not been drinking.

She said she was willing to prove that by taking a portable breath alcohol test. She was also observed eating a packet of...

Police received a call Jan. 4 about a woman found “down and out outside” of a building located on Na’Nizhoozhi Center Inc.’s campus at 506 Frances St., GPD Capt. Marinda Spencer said.

Gallup Police Department Officer Richard Rangel arrived on scene and “checked the female who appeared to be deceased,” Spencer said.

Medical personnel arrived on scene where they confirmed that recently identified Lupina Washburn, 54, of Sheep Springs, was dead.

Her body laid about 30-feet northwest of the Frances Street building, which is listed in several online directories as NCI’s “A Bridge to Recovery” substance abuse rehabilitation services. It wasn’t immediately known if...

Vehicle taken from the Maxwell area

COLFAX COUNTY – On Jan. 9, at about 8 am, New Mexico State Police began pursuit of a stolen U.S. Postal Service vehicle that went missing in the vicinity of Maxwell. The truck was spotted traveling south on I-25 near mile post 429, when it turned around and headed north.

Stop sticks were deployed and Pursuit Intervention Techniques were put into practice, eventually bringing the vehicle to a stop between North 2nd St. and North 1st St. in Raton.

The driver was identified as 34-year-old Chanel Eskleson.  She was booked into the Colfax County Detention Center and charged with:

Unlawful taking of a motor vehicle 30-16-3(A)(1) (4th Degree...