Marcus Pino

March 6, 7:44 pm

DWI (Second)

Two cars with heavy front-end damage greeted McKinley County Deputy Dewayne Holder when he was dispatched to the 27.5-mile marker of State Highway 602. Sgt. Shane Bennett arrived at the scene first and made contact with the vehicle, a dark-colored Oldsmobile Alero, that was stopped on the east side of the road. The Alero was traveling north when it was struck by a vehicle that was traveling south in the northbound lane.

The second vehicle, a black Chevy Spark, was parked in the middle of the road, also with extensive front-end damage. Holder met with the driver, Marcus Pino, 19, of Gallup, who admitted he had drunk “a gram” prior to...

Milan man reports two stolen portable toilets

A situation went awry for a portable toilet owner when two items in his inventory were stolen. The portable toilet owner from Milan was renting two of his toilets to Cutler Construction while they fixed the roads around Thoreau.

The Milan man called the McKinley County Sheriff’s Office March 18. Deputy Jeff Barnhurst met the man at the Old Tomahawk Bar around 10:30 am.

The man told Barnhurst that a few months ago one of his workers had gone out to service the portable toilets and saw that they were missing. The construction company had finished its work and left without calling the company to pick up the toilets.

The man said that he...

One too many drinks led to a Mentmore man thinking his SUV had been stolen, when in reality he had just left it somewhere while he was drunk.

McKinley County Sheriff’s Office’s Deputy Paul Davis Jr. was dispatched to Safeway on U.S. 491 at about 10:45 am on March 22. The caller, Virgil Plummer wanted to file a stolen vehicle report with the sheriff’s office.

When Davis arrived at the scene, he spoke to Plummer. Plummer said he had just gotten out of Gallup Detox and that he was in the process of buying a vehicle from a man named Perez Armando. The car was a black 2011 Chevy Tahoe.

Plummer told the deputy that he had been drinking with some people he didn’t know in his car. ...

A Gallup woman’s hairstylist stole her Discover credit card out of her purse and used it to buy a gift card and some candy.

The victim called the police on Feb. 23, saying that her credit card had been stolen. Gallup Police Officer Elijah Bowman met with the woman who said her credit card had been used at Walmart multiple times.

Discover had reached out to her asking about the purchases on Feb. 20 for a total of $320. The card was also used on Feb. 21, with two purchases totaling almost $600. The last two transactions did not go through, though.

The victim told Bowman that she might know who took her credit card, but she said she didn’t want to tell the police at that time.

On...