VANDALISM AT SPEEDWAY

Vanderwagen, June 5

When a Speedway employee arrived at work she walked in on a broken surveillance system and a mess around the store.

On June 5, around 6:21 am, McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Cecil Sanders was dispatched to the Speedway at 1068 State Hwy. 602 in Vanderwagen.

When Sanders arrived, he met with the store’s assistant manager, who said when she got to work around 5:55 am, she found trash had been thrown into the parking lot.

She said that the telephone wire had been ripped from the wall above the main entrance.

She also noticed the conduit pipes that insulate the electrical wires connecting the video surveillance camera to the main office...

ALBUQUERQUE — Kirby Cleveland was sentenced in federal court for the shooting death of Navajo Police Officer Houston James Largo in March 2017. Largo was shot on March 11. He died on March 12.

Largo responded to a domestic violence call in Prewitt. He was 27 years old at the time.

Officer Largo was with the Navajo Police Department for five years and was a recipient of the Lifesaving Award and the 2016 Indian Country Officer of the Year. He was also employed with the Gallup Police Department where he received the City Officer of the Year in 2011. Officer Largo served with the Crownpoint Police District.

Cleveland pleaded guilty in 2019 to the second degree murder of Largo. He...

Kerley Biggs

April 1, 2020, 2:22 pm

Aggravated DWI (Second)

When a gray Chrysler was seen parked at 1710 Elm Cir. with a reportedly intoxicated driver, Gallup Police Officer Justin Benally was dispatched to the area.

The driver backed his vehicle into Benally’s unit and began to leave. Officer Benally followed.

He was located near Mile Marker 16 of Highway 602. When Benally made contact with the driver, he was identified as Kerley Biggs, 30 at the time.

Biggs refused to get out of the car and reached to start the vehicle. Benally told him not to start the car and to get out. Biggs placed the car in drive. Benally said to put it in park and not leave.  Benally said he noticed that...

Week ending Friday, July 2, 2021

Record Heat

The punishing heat wave that has baked much of western Canada up to the Arctic and down to the northwestern U.S. is being made more intense by hotter temperatures at night in areas that normally cool down after sunset. Experts say that this is making nights much warmer than the normal daytime temperatures. Simon Donner of the University of British Columbia said the hot nights are like a fingerprint of climate change. “This is exactly a specific sort of prediction that scientists have been making — that we would have warmer nights,” said Donner. The “heat dome” has caused hundreds of deaths and set an all-time heat record for...