Animals abandoned out front will be euthanized

Due to a distemper outbreak, the McKinley County Humane Society will be undergoing a full four-week quarantine that started on June 20. During this time the Humane Society will not be doing any adoptions, animal viewings, and accepting any surrendered animals.

The Gallup Dog Park will be closed during the four-week quarantine period.

Distemper is a very serious disease that attacks the respiratory, gastrointestinal and nervous systems of adult dogs and puppies. It is very contagious and transferred through airborne exposure (sneezing or coughing) to the virus from an infected dog or wild animal. All dogs and puppies are susceptible to...

A Phoenix man faces multiple charges after he was found in a motel room with a woman who claimed that he had sexually abused her.

On June 16, Gallup Police Officer Aaron Marquez was dispatched to Motel 6, 3306 W. Hwy. 66 because of a domestic dispute. The motel manager had called the police after getting a call from Room 236. The manager said a female had called the front desk, and that she’d seemed intoxicated and wanted someone removed from the room.

When Marquez initially knocked on the door, there was no response. After he knocked a few more times, a man who was later identified as Brandon Joe, 30, from Phoenix, Ariz., answered the door in boxers. Because the call was about a...

ALBUQUERQUE – Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced on June 15 that Wade Dixon, 33, of Crownpoint, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, pleaded guilty to sexual abuse of a minor in Indian Country. Dixon will remain in custody pending sentencing.

According to the plea agreement and other court records, on July 10,  Dixon engaged in a sexual act with the victim, who was 13 years old. The abuse occurred in McKinley County, on the Navajo Nation.

By the terms of the plea agreement, Wade faces 13 months in prison and will be required to register as a sex offender.

The Navajo Nation Police Department investigated this case with...

BROKEN T.V.

Gallup, June 14

A man broke into a woman’s apartment and broke her front door and her T.V.

On June 14, around 12:12 am, Gallup Police Officer Maria Olivares and Warren Bowannie were dispatched to the Sun Valley Apartments, 201 Joseph M Montoya Blvd., because of a call about property damage.

The caller was a woman who lived in the apartment above H51, and she told the officers that she had seen a man wearing a red shirt and blue jeans knocking on the apartment’s door several times before leaving. But according to the witness, the man, who was later identified as Randon Hooee, came back later and broke the glass door.

When the officers got to the scene, they noticed...