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Friday, 10 August 2018 08:09 Staff Reports

POTATO CHIP BANDIT AT LARGE

8/5, Thoreau

The Lays Potato Chip bandit hit a Thoreau church the night of Aug. 5.

Alfred Vaughn, the pastor of the Thoreau First Baptist Church, told McKinley County Sheriff deputies that when he came to work on Aug. 6, he found the power to the church cut off and an east...

WEEKLY DWI REPORT

Friday, 10 August 2018 08:07 Staff Reports

Charlynn Begay

Aug. 3, 4:35 pm

Aggravated DWI

On Aug. 3, Josie Bowman, a deputy with the McKinley County Sheriff’s Office responded to a rolling domestic or a domestic violence case that occurred in a moving vehicle.

He was dispatched to the Indian Village Inn on State Highway 122 and had no problem finding the car in question.

The vehicle pulled to the side of the road and the driver, Charlynn Begay 34, of Smith Lake, got out and started walking to his unit. The right side of her face was red and she had a bump on her right temple.

She told Bowman that she and her husband, Mitchell Begay, 47, of Gallup had gone to Indian Village shopping when they got in an argument...

Missing and Murdered Relative Rally

Friday, 10 August 2018 08:03 Gallupsun Staff

Raelynn Frank wears cardboard sheets with missing persons posters for her grandmother Julia Vicente in Shiprock Aug. 4 where families and representatives of Navajo Nation Missing Persons Updates (NNMPU) attempted to raise awareness of the 40 current missing persons from the Navajo Nation. Vicente, 60, was last seen June 3, 2018 in Shiprock. Photo Credit: Cayla Nimmo

Tenaireyo Frank hands out flyers for his missing mother-in-law Julie Vicente to cars stopped at a red light in Shiprock Aug. 4. Vicente, 60, was last seen June 3, 2018 in Shiprock. Photo Credit: Cayla Nimmo

Shiprock, N.M. August 4, 2018

WEEKLY DWI REPORT

Friday, 03 August 2018 03:03 Staff Reports

Zachary Lee

July 28, 2:55 am

Aggravated DWI

McKinley County Sheriff Deputy Johnson Lee said he was on regular patrol about 2:55 am, when he saw a vehicle go through a red light as it was going onto State Highway 602/

He followed the vehicle as it headed south of Highway 602 and saw that the driver had problems maintaining his lane. He turned on his lights and sirens and the vehicle pulled to the side of the road a couple of miles south of Gallup.

But instead of stopping, the vehicle sped up and Lee found himself in a vehicle pursuit.

The vehicle turned west on Dusty Road and fled to RA 54 where the driver encountered a fence. Lee said he saw the driver, later...

Man caught ripping off towels, items from local motel

Friday, 03 August 2018 03:00 Staff Reports

Sometimes it is not good to have your photo in a newspaper.

That’s the case with Elliot George, 22, of Church Rock whose photo in the local media resulted in him being arrested on Jan. 26.

George was being sought by local police for failure to show up at a probation hearing the week prior. His photo had also been in the local media several times in the last two years after he was charged with voluntary manslaughter in the May, 2016 death of Raymond
Armstrong.

He took a plea in that case and when he was found guilty of battery and concealing his identity by a Gallup jury, and was given five years of probation.

It wasn’t long, however, according to local law enforcement...