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Stanley Spencer

June 11, 6:26 am

Aggravated DWI (Third)

Gallup Police conducted a welfare check on a vehicle parked in the middle of the road and eventually arrested a Mentmore man, Stanley Spencer, 55, for his third DWI.

Officer Elijah Bowman was dispatched to the U-Save Truck Stop at 3405 W. Hwy. 66 and found the vehicle, a white Honda Civic, that had stopped and begun to roll backwards when he arrived.

Bowman pulled behind the suspect vehicle and saw the driver, Spencer, exit and walk towards the front of the vehicle. He approached and met Spencer, noting an overheating smell coming from inside the vehicle. Spencer reportedly told Bowman that some girls...

BREAKING IN AGAIN

Gallup, June 5

A Gallup man was arrested after he reportedly broke into a house multiple times.

On June 5, around 1:15 pm, Gallup Police Officer Cindy Romancito was dispatched to a house located at 501 W. William Ave after a man reportedly broke into it.

When Romancito arrived at the house she met with the realtor who was in charge of showing the house to potential buyers. He explained that a man, who was later identified as Lonnie Jaramillo was in one of the rooms of the house and he wouldn’t leave. The relator said that Jaramillo, 47, had broken in through the house’s back door.

The realtor said Jaramillo had broken into this house before, and when...

Chee Dodge Elementary went under lockdown after a man allegedly showed up to the school with multiple guns and threatened to shoot his ex-wife, who is an employee there.

Around 2:15 pm on June 11, McKinley County Deputy Jarad Albert was dispatched to the elementary school at 64 U.S. Hwy. 491 when a woman called Metro Dispatch and said that a man, who was identified as Donovoan Nuckols, was on school property with a gun.

When Albert arrived at the school he met with two women who were standing in the parking lot. One of the women said that Nuckols, 40, was her ex-husband. She explained that he’d come to the school wanting to talk to her.

The former couple had been married for about...

Staff Reports

Mariah Chapo, 27, of Gallup, was sentenced to a five-year term of probation after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter for drunkenly rolling her vehicle and killing an 8-month-old boy who was ejected from the vehicle.

According to court document, on Feb. 11, 2022, Chapo, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, two friends, and the 8-month-old baby traveled to collect firewood. When they arrived, the group reportedly began drinking alcohol. During this time, the child was unrestrained in the back seat.

An argument between the other two members of the group caused Chapo to drive off at high speed with the child. A mile down the road, Chapo failed to navigate a turn...