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 officers arrived that time he had been agreeable and left. But this time he was reportedly refusing to leave. He allegedly kept claiming that he was the owner of the house.
According to Romancito’s report, the realtor said he’d arrived around 1 pm to show the house to potential buyers when he noticed that the screen door was locked and the back door was open. He entered the house, and eventually found Jaramillo in one of the bedrooms.
When the realtor told Jaramillo he needed to leave, he reportedly said “It’s mine, I own this house.”
Romancito was able to speak to the woman who owned the house over the phone. She said Jaramillo had broken into her home multiple times.
After speaking to the realtor and the property owner, Romancito entered the house and went into one of the bedrooms, where she found Jaramillo trying to hide under a mattress. She asked Jaramillo if he had paperwork identifying himself as the owner of the house, and he told her he needed to find it.
Romancito explained that if he could produce the paperwork and prove he owned the house, there wouldn’t be any problems. In response, Jaramillo told her to look up the paper on the municipal website for property leases. Romancito called for back up on the matter, and Sgt. Gilbert Gonzales.
As officers led Jaramillo out of the house, he reportedly became uncooperative, and he was handcuffed.
While Romancito was conducting a pat down to check for any weapons, she did find a clear plastic bag of what she identified as meth in Jaramillo’s pants pocket.
Jaramillo was arrested for breaking and entering and possession of a controlled substance. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for June 26.
TWO CAUGHT SMOKING FENTANYL, METH
Gallup, June 5
On June 5, Gallup Police Department Narcotics Agent Timothy Hughte was on patrol when he noticed a man and a woman sitting outside of the Denny’s at 836 U.S. Hwy. 491. According to Hughte’s report, they had their sweaters over their heads and seemed to be trying to hide themselves from the public. But Hughte could allegedly see that the man, who was later identified as Kyle Largo, had a straw in his mouth and he was holding some aluminum foil. The woman was eventually identified as Jaylynn Miller, 19.
Hughte and Agent Lionel Desiderio approached the two people. At this point both of them had taken the sweaters off their heads. Hughte noticed that Miller had a metal straw and some aluminum foil in her hands, but she initially tried to hide the items by putting them in her sweatpants.
Hughte approached Miller and asked her to hand him the aluminum foil she had in between her legs that he reportedly could still see in her lap. Miller handed him the foil, and when she did she exhaled out of her mouth and a small cloud of white smoke came out.
The foil Miller handed over contained a small blue pill, which Hughte identified as fentanyl.
Desiderio asked Largo, 24, to stand up. When he did so, Hughte saw that there was a plastic container with blue pills inside it in the left pocket of his sweatpants. The officers also found a glass pipe and straws in Largo’s pocket.
Hughte asked Miller to stand up and then he handcuffed her. He allegedly found multiple straws and pieces of aluminum foil in her pockets, along with a glass-like substance which he identified as methamphetamine.
Largo is facing one charge of possession of a controlled substance, while Miller is facing two charges since she also had methamphetamine on her. Both of their preliminary hearings are scheduled for June 26.
