SEEKING MAN WITH SHOPPING BASKET
Thoreau, April 3

A shoplifter is still at large after stealing items from a local Dollar General.

On April 3 around 12:24 pm, Deputy Ivan Tsethlikai Jr. with the McKinley County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to the Thoreau Dollar General at 88 Hwy. 371 because a caller had reported a shoplifting incident.

The store manager Rena Williams told Tsethlikai that an unknown man came into the store, picked up a basket, and started shopping. He asked to see a Samsung Galaxy A01 prepaid cellphone and put it into his basket along with other store items.

When Williams went to another aisle the man walked out of the store with the basket. Williams stated...

Gininka Watson
April 6, 3:40 pm
Aggravated DWI

A call came into Metro Dispatch about a female driver passed out at the wheel of a black Hyundai with the engine running in the parking lot of the Speedway store at 1068 Hwy. 602 in Vanderwagen. McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Terence Willie arrived at the scene and found the vehicle in question.

Willie knocked on the window to wake the driver, Gininka Watson, 28, of Zuni, who appeared disoriented. Another passenger was also passed out in the passenger seat. Willie observed an open container of vodka in the front seat. As he spoke with Watson, he noted she had bloodshot eyes and the vehicle smelled of alcohol.

Watson said she had...

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 told him the caller had called again and said the people were now pushing the car away from the gas pump west of the business. When he arrived at the scene, Watchman pulled up behind the car to do a welfare check. Officer Joe Roanhorse was also on the scene and he turned on his traffic lights.

The car was not moving when Watchman arrived, but as he got out of the...

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...