Suspect out on $1,000 cash surety bond

A Continental Divide man sent to jail June 22 on an aggravated battery on a household member charge was jailed and immediately bonded out the same day, officials said.

Delray Largo, 31, was taken into custody after McKinley County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a call about a female thrown down some stairs, according to a police report by Christopher Tsosie. The assailant refused to cooperate with deputies when it came time for explanations, according to a police report on the matter. The incident took place in Continental Divide at 1:25 am.

“…I saw a female approach me crying and holding her right arm,” Tsosie wrote. “I...

‘SKOOL BOY’ NEEDS SCHOOLING

6/28, THOREAU

As a Thoreau firefighter was fueling one of his trucks, he noticed two men fighting north of the Giant gas station. Lt. Nicholas Cloud told MCSO Deputy Gabrielle Puhuyesva that he honked his siren to break up the fight, which worked. One of the men approached Cloud and told him that he was stabbed.

The victim was taken to a local hospital where he told Puhuyesva that the altercation between him and Skool Boy started at the Giant gas station because he “didn’t want to pull out for him.”

Skool Boy then reportedly stabbed him in the right forearm with a knife. The victim also admitted to drinking a six pack of “Blue...

The legal limit is .08.

Christopher Bitsilly

June 18, 5:45 pm

3rd DWI, Aggravated

McKinley County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Eric Jim headed south on US 491 in response to a potential drunk driver in a gold GMC Sierra. Jim noticed the vehicle heading northbound, trailed by a Forest Service vehicle, which flashed its lights at Jim, near the 2-mile marker. The suspect driver continued to drive for about a mile after Jim turned on his lights and siren; he stopped near the 4-mile marker.

The driver, Bitsilly, 39, had red, watery eyes and smelled of alcohol. When asked if he had anything to drink, he responded, “Just this one,” as he held up an open can of Coors Light...

Lone robber brandished a pistol

The lone robber of a west side hotel remains on the lam following a June 21 robbery of the Knights Inn & Suites at 3208 W. Historic Hwy 66.

Gallup Police Officer Charles Steele recorded in a report that at about 12:51 am, a male, possibly Native American and wearing a zip-up black hoodie, black sunglasses, and a red bandana, told a desk clerk at the hotel to “give me the money.”

Steele noted that the clerk on duty stated that the robber entered through a west-side door of the two-story building. The robber got away with an undisclosed amount of cash.

“The suspect walked around the corner to the front counter and showed the clerk the gun in his...