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Police arrest woman at local gas station

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A family trip left one woman with a future court date.

On July 28 at 5:25 pm, Deputy Jerald Watchman was dispatched to the Trade Mart Alon at 1500 S. Second St. because someone had called dispatch about intoxicated people in a brown four door passenger car at the gas pump.

While Watchman was driving to the scene Dispatch...

Tragedy takes three lives

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Gallup Police Department officers investigated a shooting April 13 at Cliffside III Apartments at 601 Dani Dr.

Captain Erin Toadlena Pablo told the Gallup Sun, a 71-year-old man identified as Herbert Jefferson, Sr., shot two of his relatives, one of them a minor, then fled the scene for Fort Defiance, Ariz., where he is believed to have shot himself.

His 34-year-old daughter-in-law, Fran Tah, was killed, as was her daughter.

The Navajo Nation Police Department, Window Rock District, secured and processed that crime scene where they recovered the firearm believed to have been used at the Cliffside Apartments.

NPD investigators also assisted by locating and interviewing...

FBI seeks public’s assistance

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The FBI wants to know more about the circumstances surrounding the death of Watson Ben Watchman.

Watchman was found dead at his residence three-and-a-half miles south of the Tohatchi Speedway store on State Highway 491 in Tohatchi, N.M. on Aug. 1, 2020.

The cause of death was determined to be blunt head trauma.

Watchman was 43 years old at the time of his death. The FBI and Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety are investigating this case.

Anyone with information is asked to call the FBI at (505) 889-1300 or go online at tips.fbi.gov

Weekly Police Activity Reports

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GHOSTED

Jamestown, March 31

A woman was just trying to get gas when a man driving a Diamond Trucking Company truck assaulted her.

The woman from Jamestown called the McKinley County Sheriff’s Office on March 31 to report the assault. Deputy Timo Molina arrived at 28 Giant Crossing in Jamestown at 2:44 pm.

The victim explained that she had been pumping gas when a male driver approached her truck. She said that she had a feeling she knew why the man was coming toward her, because she’d had to back in to the pump to get gas, and the man may have thought she cut him off.

The victim locked her door, and the man proceeded to flip her off multiple times before punching the...

WEEKLY DWI REPORT

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Marcus Pino

March 6, 7:44 pm

DWI (Second)

Two cars with heavy front-end damage greeted McKinley County Deputy Dewayne Holder when he was dispatched to the 27.5-mile marker of State Highway 602. Sgt. Shane Bennett arrived at the scene first and made contact with the vehicle, a dark-colored Oldsmobile Alero, that was stopped on the east side of the road. The Alero was traveling north when it was struck by a vehicle that was traveling south in the northbound lane.

The second vehicle, a black Chevy Spark, was parked in the middle of the road, also with extensive front-end damage. Holder met with the driver, Marcus Pino, 19, of Gallup, who admitted he had drunk “a gram” prior to...

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