A Lukachukai man broke a Gallup cannabis store’s window, but it wasn’t because he was upset about marijuana legalization.

On March 9, around 4:05 pm, Gallup Police Officer Julio Yazzie was sitting in his patrol car at the intersection of Ford Drive and Highway 66, when he noticed five people surrounding one man at the former Kim’s Imports Plus, 1011 E. U.S. Rte. 66.

When he approached the group, he found Herlton Seymour Chee, 39, from Lukachukai, Ariz. The other people around him told Yazzie that Chee had thrown a rock through a window at Red Barn Growers, 1005 E. Hwy. 66.

Chee agreed to talk to Yazzie in his police car. Once in the car, he said he wanted to talk to Yazzie’s...

Man gets tasered instead

Police ended up tasing a man from Window Rock after he kept acting like he was going to start fighting them.

On March 9, around 9:16 pm, Gallup Police Officer Matthew Strandy arrived at the Villa De Gallup II, 333 Klagetoh St., because a man had called in saying his grandmother had texted him telling him to call the police.

The man explained that his uncle was highly intoxicated, and that his grandmother was afraid to come out of her room.

When Strandy got to the apartment, the uncle, Keroy Bia, 38, from Window Rock, Ariz., opened the door. According to his report, Strandy could tell Bia was extremely intoxicated, and he became aggressive towards the...

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Brianna Begay

Jan. 3, 12:56 am

Aggravated DWI (Third)

A visit to a late-night drive-thru resulted in Brianna Begay, 35, of Gallup, being arrested for her third DWI.

Metro Dispatch received a call stating a driver was unresponsive at the wheel of a green Jeep Patriot in the drive-thru at Del Taco at 550 U.S. Hwy. 491.

Gallup Officer Vincent Thompson responded to the call and arrived at the scene and found the vehicle. He knocked on the front window but the driver, Begay, did not respond. Thompson shone his flashlight in her face but she still did not wake. He had to shake the vehicle to wake Begay up.

Thompson told Begay to open the vehicle door but she...

Meskee Yatsayte of the Missing and Murdered Diné Relatives Task Force, state Sen. Shannon Pinto, and Madam Chair Amber Kanazbah Crotty support the signing of several MMIWR bills in Albuquerque March 16. Photo Credit: 24th Navajo Nation Council