Gallup Sun

State senate loses a champion for Northern N. M.

Senator Cisneros, D-Questa, died Sept. 17, at the age of 71 of a suspected heart attack.

He represented District 6 since 1985. Cisneros served as chair of the interim Revenue Stabilization and Tax Policy Committee and vice-chair of the Senate Finance Committee.

Senator John Arthur Smith, D-Deming, told the N.M. Political Report that Cisneros served on the Senate Finance Committee as the vice-chair.  Smith said, “He was very, very responsible when it came to state finances.”  He added that he and Cisneros often ‘chuckled together’ and spoke every day.

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, told the Report Sept 17, “I am...

Convicted on seven counts of child sex abuse

PHOENIX, Ariz. -  The U. S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona, announced Sept. 17 that Bo Lane, 36, of Coppermine, Ariz., has been sentenced to 432 months in prison, followed by a lifetime term of supervised release by Chief U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow, for seven counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, each count to run concurrently. Lane was found guilty of those counts June 14 by a federal jury.

The evidence at trial showed that between 2013 and 2017, Lane sexually abused two minor victims.  The abuse started when the victims were six years old and took place on the Navajo Indian Reservation.  Both Lane and the...

Shaniah Chee/Tamaira Begay

Sept. 15, 2:11 am

Aggravated DWI

McKinley County Sheriff Sgt. Elreno Henio said he was dispatched to a one-vehicle accident near the interchange at Yah-Ta-Hey.

When he got there, he found the car had crashed into the center concrete barrier. Shaniah Chee, 24, of Tempe, Ariz., told him that three people at the scene were passengers in the vehicle and that the driver, a man, had fled the scene after the accident.

When Henio examined the vehicle, however, he found the driver’s seat pulled all the way forward to accommodate a short person. He said he also smelled the odor of intoxicating liquor coming from Chee’s person.

He asked the other two...

FIGHTER ARRESTED

Jamestown, Sept. 13

A Prewitt man who was beaten up in a fight found himself being transported to the county jail after McKinley County Sheriff’s Office deputies discovered he had an outstanding bench warrant.

McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Johnson Lee said he was dispatched to the Flying J Travel Center in the Jamestown area about 11:30 am. on Sept. 13 because of a report of a fight. When he got there, he saw Wilmer Begay, 37, being loaded onto a stretcher.

Lee said he observed some bruises to his face and a scratch on the back of his neck. He said he asked him what happened, but got no response.

Witnesses at the scene said they saw two men...