DUELING DAUGHTER

6/4, Gallup

GPD Officer Chavo Chischilly was dispatched to 810 Patton Drive, Apt. 26, early in the morning. The caller, Teryn Roan, did not wish to make contact with the officers, but asked them to check on her mother. The mother was intoxicated, but OK, and the officers left the scene.

Roughly two hours later, Chischilly was dispatched to the same location and told that Roan, 20, had hit her mother. Chischilly noticed a cut and blood on the victim’s head. The victim claimed Roan grabbed a 20-ounce bottle of beer and threw it at her, before she chased Roan out.

Roan was noticeably intoxicated; she claimed she did not throw the bottle. Roan was arrested and...

The legal limit is .08.

Fernando D. Billsie

May, 29, 2:15 am

DWI, Aggravated

Gallup Police Department Officer Douglas Hoffman saw a blue SUV back into a tree in the Shalimar parking lot in Gallup. When asked, the driver, Fernando Billsie, 27, said he had consumed “too much” alcohol, Hoffman noted in his report. Billsie failed or was too intoxicated to perform field sobriety tests. He was arrested and blew both a .20 and .19 during the breath tests.

Myron Carl Peters

May 28, 1:38 am

DWI, Aggravated

When MCSO Deputy Roxanne King noticed a vehicle unable to stay in its driving lane on Hwy 491, she signaled for it to pull over. Officer Johnson Lee joined King at...

A teenage girl became the victim of an alleged sexual assault when she reportedly met up with Clayton Russell after chatting with him for about two months on the popular social media site Facebook.

According to a criminal complaint, filed in Magistrate Court June 6 by McKinley County Sheriff’s Department Det. Anthony Ashley, Russell, 20, allegedly raped the teen after an early morning of partying near McGaffey Lake.

The complaint states that the teen girl, “R.Y.”, said during an interview with police that Russell sent her a message, so she snuck out of her house at 1 am on May 30 to meet up with him. She said he was driving a gray, older van and had a friend with him who went by...

One suspect out; the other still jailed on $25K bond

One known drug dealer remained jailed June 2 and another bonded out May 25 after a Gallup police field operation yielded a drug bust in a grocery store parking lot, according to a police report.

Russell “Rusty” Luna, 29, and Jeremy “We” Henry, 24, were taken into custody May 24 after Gallup narcotics agents seized weapons and drugs. Luna was charged with possession of heroin, marijuana, and drug paraphernalia. Luna was also found to be in possession of a knife, the report states. Henry was arrested on two outstanding bench warrants, one for the possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and the other for failure to...