NOT AGAIN
Gallup, June 5
A Gallup man is facing charges after he was caught with fentanyl by the same officer who arrested him for drug possession in 2022.
While on duty on June 5, Gallup Police Department Narcotics Agent Timothy Hughte noticed three men standing outside McDonald’s North, 700 U.S. Hwy. 491. In his police report, Hughte states that he believed the men were smoking fentanyl because he could see one of them ingesting something on a foil and using a metal straw-like item.
When Hughte approached the men two of them turned and walked away. But he was able to speak to the other man, who was identified as Ty Treetop. Treetop, 32, was holding a metal pipe to his lips and he had foil in his left hand.
Hughte allegedly told Treetop to put the pipe in his pocket and to give him the foil. Instead, Treetop put both items in his pants pocket. Hughte took the opportunity to handcuff him and retrieved the foil from his left front pocket.
Another piece of foil fell out of Treetop’s pocket when Hughte went to grab the original one. The second piece was burnt. Fifteen small baggies also fell out of his pocket.
Hughte then opened the foil that fell out of Treetop’s pocket and found a blue pill that he identified as fentanyl inside it.
When Hughte asked Treetop for his name he immediately recognized him as someone who was on release from court due to a prior drug possession. Treetop looked at Hughte’s nametag and became upset, allegedly recognizing him as the officer who had previously arrested him.
He began hitting his head on a window outside the McDonald’s and started yelling. Hughte led him away from the window, but Treetop tried to walk away while he was still in handcuffs. Hughte had to lean him over his patrol car to try and get him to calm down.
Treetop continued to yell, telling Hughte he was going to hit him.
A patrol sergeant eventually arrived at the scene to help Hughte get control of Treetop.
Treetop was transported to the Gallup Police Department. While the officers were driving to the GPD, Treetop began hitting his head on the Plexiglas of the patrol unit. The officers had to stop the vehicle and restrain him in order to keep driving.
Once Hughte finished filing the necessary paperwork at the GPD, he transported Treetop to the McKinley County Adult Detention Center. He was charged with possession of a controlled substance. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for June 18.
SMOKING FENTANYL IN A MCDONALD’S BATHROOM
Gallup, April 17
A Gallup woman was reportedly caught smoking fentanyl in a McDonald’s bathroom.
On April 17, around 8 am, Gallup Police Officer Daniel Brown was dispatched to the McDonald’s North, 700 U.S. Hwy. 491, after employees called Metro Dispatch and said a woman was trespassing onto the business’s property. The employees said the woman’s name was “Gloria” and that she was wearing dark clothing. She was allegedly hiding in the bathroom.
When Brown arrived at the scene an employee led him to the bathroom. The employes warned him that the woman, who was later identified as Kimberlita Jackson, was smoking fentanyl in the bathroom. Brown checked the bathroom, but Jackson, 45, was not inside.
After he checked the bathroom a McDonald’s customer approached Brown and told him Jackson had just been inside the bathroom and that she had asked her for money. Another employee said Jackson was wearing a dark jacket, blue jeans, and that she had a backpack that made her hunch over.
Brown left the McDonald’s and began searching the parking lot. He eventually found a woman matching the employees’ descriptions. He approached her and asked her how she was doing.
He also asked if she’d just been inside the McDonald’s and Jackson said she hadn’t been inside. Brown informed her that he was looking for a woman who matched her description. Jackson told Brown that her name was “Kim Johnson.”
One of the McDonald’s employees stepped outside and confirmed that it was Jackson who had been in the bathroom reportedly smoking fentanyl.
After the employee identified Jackson, she began yelling “It’s not me!” repeatedly.
Brown checked in with Metro Dispatch and they confirmed that Jackson had a warrant out for her arrest. He asked Jackson if her name was Kimberlita Jackson and she said it was, while also apologizing for lying.
The McDonald’s employees did not have a trespass notice for a Kimberlita Jackson.
Brown arrested Jackson for the outstanding warrant. While he was patting her down, he found a glass pipe in the bag she had with her.
The pipe had a white crystal-like substance inside it that Brown identified as methamphetamine. He also found a piece of foil inside the bag. The foil contained a blue pill that Brown identified as fentanyl.
After finding the drugs in Jackson’s purse Brown placed her in the backseat of his patrol car. He then went inside the McDonald’s to speak to the employees.
One employee said she knew Jackson had been smoking fentanyl in the bathroom because she could reportedly smell it and she saw the smoke. The employee said she told Jackson she couldn’t be in the restaurant, but Jackson just ignored her.
A trespass notice with Jackson’s actual name was filed out, and she is now officially banned from that McDonald’s.
Jackson was charged with possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia. On June 6 her case was binded over from Magistrate Court to District Court.
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