GLASS THROWER
6/16, Gallup
You meet all kinds of people at motels in Gallup, including people like Euronika Descheny.
Descheny, 26, of Gallup got into an argument on June 16 with the manager of the Zia Motel, 915 East Highway 66 and came out of it being arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and criminal damage to property.
Gallup Patrolman Daniel Brown was dispatched to the motel just after midnight because of a complaint by the owner and manager of the motel, Bilweshkumar Patel. When he got to the motel, Patel appeared to be afraid and the person he was afraid of was Descheny.
Patel told Brown that he found Descheny in one of the rooms and told her she had to leave because she was not registered at the motel. She left, but a little later she came to the motel office and asked for a refund for the room and Patel said he told her he couldn’t give it to her because she did not rent the room.
He said she then became angry and picked up the glass that covered the counter and threw at him. He added that a piece of the glass hit his left inner knee. He told Brown he did not know how much replacing the glass would cost.
Brown had no trouble finding Descheny who was standing across the street from the motel.
She told Brown that her brother had rented the room for her so when she was thrown out of the room, she went to ask for a refund and not even all of it, just $20. She admitted banging her fist on the glass and as she was leading, pushing it away from her.
At that point she was arrested and transported to the county jail.
BOILING OVER
6/15, Gallup
Preston John, 23, of Gallup was arrested on June 15 after he reportedly beat his girlfriend and attacked one of her friends who was trying to help her.
He now faces charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, battery on a household member, and criminal damage to property of a household member. When he was picked up, he was found also to have an outstanding warrant out for his arrest.
Gallup Patrolman Joe Roanhorse was sent to a The Chaparral Mobile Inn Trailer Park at about 3:12 pm because of a report of a domestic dispute.
When he got there, he talked to Martina Henry who said she had a relationship with John for about a year.
She said she and a friend were sitting outside the trailer when John returned home intoxicated. He became belligerent and began yelling, so Henry said she and her friend decided to leave. As they did, Henry said she grabbed a computer because she did not want John to have it.
As she did this, she told Roanhorse, John grabbed her and pushed her onto a couch and got on top of her, punching her twice in the face. He then began choking her. She was able to get away when her friend hit John on the back of the head with an object.
She told Roanhorse that John then got off of her and began chasing her friend with a tool he found outside. He continued chasing her friend around a vehicle outside before getting on the roof of the vehicle. She said he then used the tool he had in his hand to smash the front windshield.
Henry at this time was outside watching everything. After hitting the windshield, she said John came after her. She went inside but he smashed through the door and came after her as she ran into another room closing the door.
She said John also damaged that door but did not get get in the room. Instead, he left the trailer and walked way.
Roanhorse then talked to her friend who basically told him the same thing and he went out in search of John but couldn’t find him.
Almost three hours later, Henry called on to tell him John had been seen near her trailer and this time when he went searching for him, he found him. He had some blood on his clothes which were wet because he tried to wash off his blood from an injury he suffered during the incident.
Roanhorse said John was taken to a local hospital and once he had a medical clearance, he was booked into the county jail.
NO WORDS
6/12, Gallup
Gallup Police were called in after a Thoreau woman reported her ex-boyfriend attacked her when she went to his house to get her things after she broke up with him.
Keenan Nevayaktewa, 25, of Gallup was charged with false imprisonment, abuse of a child and battery on a household member.
Shelby Charley told police that when she went to talk to her ex-boyfriend, he grabbed her and pushed her against a wall and wouldn’t let her leave. She said her daughter was watching this and crying.
As he was holding her against the wall, he began punching the wall with his fist, almost hitting her, she said. She said he continued to yell at her until she was able to take her two children away from the house as Nevayaktewa went to get something for his hand.
When police later questioned him, Nevayaktewa admitted hitting his hand against the wall but said he neither pushed nor hit Charley. He was arrested and taken to the county jail.