Zane Olin Yazzie

July 27, 6:11 pm

Aggravated DWI (Third)

McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Terrence Willie said he was dispatched to the Talk of the Town Car Wash in Thoreau to investigate a possible drunk driver.

When he got there, he found other deputies had arrived before him. He was told when they arrived, they found Zane Olin Yazzie, 50, of Prewitt, sweating or crying in the driver’s seat of a pickup truck. Yazzie told them he had been driving all day.

Willie said Yazzie appeared to be highly intoxicated. He reportedly smelled of alcohol, had bloodshot eyes, and slurred speech. Willie said he began asking Yazzie questions like where was he going and if he had had anything to...

Suspect was hiding out for nearly 40 years

Luis Archuleta, aka Larry Pusateri, a former Colorado resident wanted by the FBI since 1977 on a charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution/confinement, has been apprehended and is being returned to Colorado following his arrest in Española, N.M. on Aug. 5, about 43 years later.

Special Agents from the Albuquerque FBI Division, working with the Española Police Department, arrested Archuleta.

A federal arrest warrant was issued for Archuleta in 1977 on charges stemming from his escape from a Colorado Department of Corrections facility in 1974. At the time of his escape, Archuleta was serving a prison sentence resulting from his 1973...

Week ending Friday, July 31, 2020

Global Quieting

The plunge in human activities worldwide in recent months due to the pandemic has brought the longest and most pronounced quiet period of seismic noise in recorded history. An international team of scientists write in the journal Science that the relative quiet has allowed them to detect previously concealed earthquake signals, which could help us more accurately tell the difference in the future between man-made and natural seismic noise. The typically quiet periods around Christmas, New Year’s and the Chinese New Year have been eclipsed by the decline of industrial production, transport and service industries brought on by...

Gallup Police Department requests the public’s help in locating Juan Angel.

Angel, 16, was reported missing on Aug. 3 by his mother. He is estimated to be about 5’6” tall and weigh 130 pounds. There was no information on what he was last seen wearing.

His previous whereabouts and potential destination are unknown.

If you have any information about this case, contact Gallup Police at (505)863-9365. Ask for Detective Tasheena Wilson.