Wanted for probation violation

Gallup Police Department narcotics agents were conducting routine surveillance  on the north side of Gallup Feb. 25. They located Joseph Gonzales, 34, of Gallup, going into a room at the Quality Inn at 1500 W. Maloney Ave.

Agents knew Gonzales was wanted for probation violation and several other warrants. As they attempted to make contact with him in his second story motel room, Gonzales jumped from the window onto the ground below.

A narcotics agent saw him fall and arrested him after the impact. Medstar Ambulance and Gallup Fire Department personnel responded to the scene and determined that, despite the fall, Gonzales did not suffer any major...

Genice Tsosie

Feb. 9, 2:44 am

Aggravated DWI

Gallup Patrolman Richard Rangel said he was on regular patrol when he noticed a vehicle with no license plate.

He did a traffic stop and talked to Tsosie, 41, of Pinedale. He said he noticed indications of intoxication as well as the smell of intoxicating alcohol coming from the vehicle.

Tsosie also said she was coming from the Sports Page, so he asked if she would take the standard field sobriety tests and she agreed.

She failed the tests and was arrested. Later, she refused to take a breath alcohol test.

 

Derrick Benally

Feb. 8, 11:59 pm

Aggravated DWI

Gallup Police received a call from a fast food restaurant of a...

Third person seriously injured

Michael H. Milane-Baca was arrested Feb. 25 for an incident on May 14, 2019, in which Patrick Diaz and Richard Lovato were killed and Rigina Johns was seriously injured.

Milane-Baca was under the influence of alcohol while driving a green Cadillac Escalade westbound on Highway 66 in Gallup.  Diaz, Lovato, and Johns were passengers in the vehicle. It is estimated that Milane-Baca was traveling at approximately 85 miles per hour in a 35 mile-per-hour speed zone, when he allegedly intentionally maneuvered the vehicle off the highway and crashed head-on into a concrete embankment.

The crash took place on the west side of Gallup at the Interstate 40...

DOMESTIC TROUBLE

Gallup, Feb. 16

Gallup Officer Cindy Romancito was dispatched to the Howard Johnson, 2915 W. Hwy. 66, in reference to property damage.

When she arrived at the room specified in the call, she made contact with Lashonda Begay, who told her she and her ex-husband, Brian Shawn Scott, 41, of Mentmore, had met the night before at the room. While things seemed to go smoothly at first, Begay said Scott got upset and they began arguing at about 10 pm and Scott would not allow her to leave.

Begay was able to leave the room shortly after 10 pm and returned later at 3 am. Scott was not around, so she went to sleep. When she woke the next morning, she realized the TV...