A woman reportedly stole a T-shirt from Hot Topic by walking out wearing it.

Gallup Police Officer Aaron Marquez met with a Tribal Security sergeant at Oasis Mediterranean Restaurant, 1280 W. Maloney Ave. May 23. According to Marquez’s report, the security officer told him that a woman named Shayann Jim stole from the Rio West mall’s Hot Topic.

The security guard explained that another guard recognized Jim, 24, as she was walking out of the mall.

The Hot Topic store reportedly didn’t want to press any charges, and only wanted the items Jim stole back.

When Marquez spoke to Jim, she said she was walking around the mall, planning on buying things, but when she saw the total cost...

A man was recently hit in the chest with a rock while hanging out outside of Sports World. The man who threw the rock is now facing charges.

On May 27, around 4:30 pm, Metro Dispatch received multiple calls about people throwing rocks at the Sports Page Lounge (1400 S. Second St.).

When Gallup Police Officer Jarad Albert responded to the scene, he saw several people standing and sitting against a wall on the south side of the bar. When he parked his patrol vehicle, he met with a victim who said two people had thrown rocks at him. One of those people was later identified as Devin Willie, 39.

The victim said one of the rocks hit him in the chest, and he said Willie was the one who...

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Jimmy Longhair

March 29, 8:19 pm

DWI (Eighth)

A near head-on collision with Gallup Police led to a Vanderwagen man, Jimmy Longhair, 68, being arrested and charged with his eighth DWI.

McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Terence Willie responded to a vehicle pursuit on Bread Springs Road when Gallup Police OfficerTimothy Hughte reported that a vehicle nearly collided with his own unit. MCSO Lt. Johnson Lee and Deputy Nocona Clark arrived at the scene shortly afterward.

Willie arrived at the scene near the 0.5 mile marker and reportedly found a white Nissan Altima parked facing eastbound. He met Lee at the scene, who informed him that Hughte stated the...

An Oklahoma man has died after pickup truck rolled over onto Six Mile Canyon Road.

On June 10, around 10:15 am, the New Mexico State Police investigated the fatal crash involving a 2003 Chevy pickup truck on Interstate 40 and Six Mile Canyon Road, east of Gallup.

The initial investigation indicated that the truck was traveling eastbound on Interstate 40 around mile marker 39. For reasons still under investigation, the Chevy drove into the median, and rolled over onto Six Mile Canyon Road. Cesar Alfaro (50) of Mcloud OK, a passenger in the truck, was pronounced deceased on the scene by the Office of the Medical Investigator.

The driver of the Chevy truck, along with one other...