Staff Reports

The legal limit is .08.

Mark Lee

May 14, 11:39 pm

4th DWI, Aggravated

Lee caught Gallup Police Department Officer Dominic Molina’s attention at the intersection of Marguerite and Hwy 66 while driving with no headlights. Molina followed Lee down east Hwy 66, and when he activated his emergency lights, Molina kept driving, but pulled into the Super 8 Motel parking lot, striking the curb.

After a short parking lot pursuit, Lee, 29, jumped out of his car and started running. Molina caught up with him a short time later and placed him in handcuffs. Lee showed all the signs of intoxication, and was incoherent. He refused to take all the required tests, so...

Preliminary statistics released on May 16 by the FBI show that 41 law enforcement officers were feloniously killed in the line of duty in 2015. This is a decrease of almost 20 percent when compared with the 51 officers killed in 2014. By region, 19 officers died as a result of criminal acts that occurred in the South, nine officers in the West, five officers in the Midwest, four in the Northeast, and four in Puerto Rico.

By circumstance, eight officers were investigating suspicious persons/circumstances; seven were engaged in tactical situations; six officers were conducting traffic pursuits/stops; four were killed as a result of ambushes (entrapment/premeditation); three officers were...

Meth, pipes, scale seized in traffic stop

One of the Gallup men arrested May 3 after a routine traffic stop led to drug trafficking and possession charges, remained jailed this week at the McKinley County Adult Detention Center, a jail official said.

Wade Rodriguez, 23, was jailed on a $3,000 cash only bond, Jail Warden Steve Silversmith confirmed.

Rodriguez and Aaron Gonzales, 26, were stopped at about 10:16 pm by Deputy Johnson Lee of the McKinley County Sheriff’s Office. Rodriguez was charged with trafficking a controlled substance and with the possession, delivery or manufacturing of drug paraphernalia.

Gonzales, the driver of the white Nissan Versa the two were riding in, was...

GUN THREAT

5/9, Gallup

Multiple Gallup Police Department officers arrived to a home on 107 E. Hill in response to a man threatening another man with a gun. According to police reports, the man with the gun was Darrell Deschene of Gallup. He also reportedly had a knife on him as well.

The reported victim told police that he was in the house, with the door locked, and was arguing with his girlfriend when Deschene reportedly kicked in the door and was holding a gun with his right hand outside of his left hip unholstered. The victim then closed the door on Deschene and called the police.

Since Deschene, 23, didn’t possess a New Mexico concealed weapons permit, he was...