NEVER MIND MY FACE. JUST GET MY MONEY BACK.
Gallup, Aug. 15

A man who suffered a 3-inch laceration to his left cheek, a large abrasion to his forehead and a mark next to his right eye, didn’t want medical attention, but called the police because his bag was stolen.

The man said he was jumped by three people who stomped on his face. When Gallup Police Officer Daniel Brown arrived near the Hacienda Motel, 2510 E. Hwy. 66, the man refused to say who had attacked him and would not give a description. Instead, he said, “it’s all good.” He did tell Brown that one of the three had brass knuckles.

The victim said a brown backpack that held about $187 in cash was stolen from him. A...

Valerie James-Antonio
Aug. 14, 11:36 pm
Aggravated DWI

On his way out of the El Rancho Hotel, Gallup Police Officer Julio Yazzie saw a tan pick-up truck driving the wrong way on the street. The truck turned west onto Aztec Avenue from Ford Drive and then into the eastbound turn lane while going westbound. Yazzie got behind the truck after it returned to the westbound lane. Then, after it turned north onto Navajo Drive, he conducted a traffic stop near the curb.

He met the driver, Valerie James-Antonio, 46, of Gallup. Antonio told Yazzie she was following her uncle in the truck in front of her. Yazzie noted she had bloodshot eyes and looked as if she spilled a drink on the front of her...

A chase near downtown Gallup and into a nearby neighborhood led to several juveniles being pulled over and one getting charged.

Gallup Police were having a briefing near downtown early on Aug. 13 when Officer Julio Yazzie spotted a white Toyota RAV4 traveling south on Third Street at a high rate of speed with several people hanging out of the windows.

Yazzie got to his unit and followed the SUV onto Mesa Avenue and then Fourth Street, where he found the vehicle near the intersection of Morgan Avenue. He pulled over near the SUV and found several people inside. As Yazzie activated his unit’s emergency lights to conduct a traffic stop, the Toyota took off on Fourth Street.

Multiple...

Week ending Friday, October 1, 2021

 

Arctic Minimum

The sea ice surrounding the North Pole reached its lowest coverage of the year on Sept. 17. While not a record low this year, sea ice cover has dropped by about 50 percent since the 1980s, which scientists say has been a direct result of greenhouse gas emissions. This summer’s more stubborn ice forced Russia to use icebreakers to clear a path through its summertime Northern Sea Route after it remained blocked for the first time since 2008.

 

Eruptions

Many residents of Spain’s La Palma Island were told to seal doors and windows with tape and wet towels to protect against potentially toxic gases emitted by the eruption of...