Victim was 15-years-old

A Houck, Ariz., man remained jailed June 22 on criminal sexual penetration and kidnapping charges, according to an affidavit for arrest warrant. The alleged incident took place on the west side of Gallup at a truck stop and a motel, records state.

Derek Avery, 32, was taken into custody June 21 on a sex charge that took place in October 2015, the affidavit states. Avery is charged with picking up a 15-year-old girl at the Love’s travel stop and then taking her to a nearby motel, where he sexually assaulted her various times, records show.

McKinley County Adult Detention Center Warden Steve Silversmith said Avery is being held on a $10,000 bond. He was still...

BATTERED AND BOOKED

6/19, GALLUP

Gallup Police Officers Chaz Troncoso and D. Johnson were dispatched to Dani Dr., Apt. D-30, regarding a possible drunken fight among household members. Upon their arrival, a woman with a scratch on her face, blood on her shirt, and a baby in her arms came outside. The woman pointed out a male, Ardale Chiquito, 27, and claimed he attacked her.

According to the police report, Chiquito is the father of her eldest son and her ex-boyfriend. While at her house, he began to argue with her, so she told him to go to bed. The victim went into a separate bedroom to be with her four-month-old child (not the child of Chiquito), and Chiquito...

ALBUQUERQUE — The FBI is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the driver responsible for a hit-and-run crash that killed a woman on the Navajo Nation on or about April 4.

The Native American woman’s body was found along the south shoulder of the eastbound lanes of US Highway 64, near mile marker 29-1/2, approximately seven miles east of Shiprock.

Evidence at the site indicates the vehicle may have been a 1999-2003 Dodge Ram truck.

The victim’s body was believed to have been at the scene for several hours before being discovered by a school-bus driver early on the morning of April 4.

The FBI is not disclosing the victim’s identity...

ALBUQUERQUE — The FBI and Albuquerque Police Department are looking for a team of robbers who hit an Albuquerque bank on June 22, and fled in a vehicle with front-end damage.

Three suspects were possibly involved, and they fled in a late-model, four-door car with faded gold paint.

The vehicle was missing a front driver-side hubcap and its hood was not closed completely.

The robbery occurred at the Bank of the West at 5401 Central Ave. NE at approximately 3:21 pm.

A male suspect described as approximately 6-feet-tall and skinny entered the bank and demanded money.

He wore a red bandana over his face, a hood over his head, a dark baseball cap, a blue Nike windbreaker, and blue...