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...

Gallup Indian Medical Center will be the destination of patients who would generally go to Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services tonight.

Metro Dispatch put out a notice at 6:17 pm, that RMCH is on divert. They said the hospital placed the call, but did not tell the Sun the reason this action was taken.

The divert order means RMCH will not be accepting any patients until 6 am July 16 except for those suffering a stroke or suspected stroke.

All other patients en route to RMCH will be diverted to GIMC.

Efforts to contact RMCH received this response from spokesperson Ina M. Burmeister.

“From time to time workers call-in sick. This morning, our ER was more than adequately...

SHIPROCK, N.M. - Navajo Police Department Shiprock District is currently attempting to locate convicted felon, Kendale Johnson, 31, who is wanted on a federal arrest warrant for possession of a firearm. Johnson is also a person of interest involving multiple car thefts and home invasions that has occurred within the Shiprock police district.

On July 14 at about 8:25 pm, the Shiprock Police District was engaged in two separate vehicle pursuits in Shiprock, N.M. Johnson is believed to have been in one of the vehicles. The pursuits ended with the occupants abandoning the vehicles, resulting in a foot search of the area which led to the apprehension of five individuals.

The...