Gallup Sun

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McKinley County commissioners voted to approve over $1.5 million for a new shelter for battered families at their Jan. 11 meeting The McKinley County Domestic Violence Shelter for Battered Families has been serving county residents for 43 years.

“The $1.5 million is for the design of a new emergency shelter to meet all of our community needs,” the non-profit organization’s executive director Emily Ellison explained. “We used our data and made a list of on average how many people need shelter at a given point [and] that showed that we needed to expand our emergency shelter building.”

Ellison said that ideally, each shelter should be...

facility is providing greatly needed substance abuse treatment services

Four Corners Detox Recovery Center, which is providing much needed substance abuse treatment programs to the Gallup area, is celebrating its one-year anniversary.

FCDRC opened in Dec. 2020 offering medically managed detoxification services to men and women and added a short-term Residential Treatment Program in June in order to meet significant demand in the community. All FCDRC programming emphasizes bridging traditional cultural practices with evidence-based treatment through the use of peer support and local staff.


The latest effort by FCDRC has been to create the Four Corners Rural Health Care Services...

WOMAN WITH A KNIFE
Gallup, Nov. 13

Tribe Security already had 29-year-old Latanya Livingston of Breadsprings, N.M., in handcuffs when Gallup Police were called about a stabbing. The person who called GPD said they were standing behind Taco Shack.

It was just after midnight when Gallup Police Officer Alana Bradley was advised of the incident near 1400 S. Second St.

The victim stated he was leaving Sports Page when Livingston approached and stabbed him in the shoulder with a knife and fled the area. He was transported to a local hospital while officers searched for the weapon, finding a knife near a fenced area. It appeared to have been cleaned.

Two witnesses at the scene said...

ALBUQUERQUE— A convenience store in Vanderwagen was the site of a robbery on April 18, 2019 that resulted in  the sentencing of three men to jail, two of them members of the Navajo Nation.

According to the plea agreements and other court records, on April 18, 2019, Julian Silversmith, 44 of Jones Ranch, N.M. drove co-defendants Aurelius Eddie, 20, of Vanderwagen and Kevin Marquez, 22, of Gallup, to a convenience store in Vanderwagen, with the intent to rob the store. As Eddie and Marquez entered the convenience store, they began waving firearms, and Eddie fired a round into the ceiling. They then proceeded to steal alcohol from the refrigerators and behind the counter, while Marquez...