Gallup Sun

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Gallup, Sept. 4

A loss prevention officer at Walmart, 1650 W. Maloney Ave., caught a juvenile putting several items into a backpack that did not belong to her.

Gallup Officer Matthew Strandy met the loss prevention officer and was told the juvenile, listed only as “L” in the report, was not responding to questions. Both “L’s” older sister and grandmother had also been at the store and were looking for her.

The total cost for the items “L” attempted to take, two pairs of pants, a T-shirt, blue socks and a backpack, totaled to just under $59.

“L” was faced with charges of shoplifting as well as a 24-hour ban from the business.

 



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Larit Benally
Sept. 3, 3:46 am
Aggravated DWI

A vehicle was parked in the middle of the road near the Coca-Cola Plant, 154 Mentmore Road, with the driver apparently unconscious at the wheel.

Gallup Officer Dominic Molina arrived at the scene and found a white pickup truck  running with two males asleep inside. There was an open box of Bud Light in the back with numerous cans strewn around inside and in the back of the truck.

Another officer arrived and the two opened the locked truck and turned it off. Molina then woke the driver, Larit Benally, 37, of Mentmore, who appeared to be intoxicated and had slurred speech, bloodshot eyes, and smelled of alcohol.

Benally exited the...

ALBUQUERQUE — Hoping to reunite and heal families, Navajo Nation First Lady Phefelia Nez, 24th Navajo Nation Council Delegate Amber Kanazbah Crotty were among those in attendance when the establishment of a sub-unit was announced to solve cases of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives.

A press conference Dec. 16 in Albuquerque to offer support for New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, New Mexico Indian Affairs Department Secretary Lynn A. Trujillo, and the Second Judicial District Attorney Raúl Torrez, as they signed a memorandum of understanding creating the sub-unit under the Second Judicial District Attorney’s Office Crime Strategies Unit in Bernalillo...

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Council Delegate Amber Kanazbah Crotty of the 24th Navajo Nation Council introduced Emergency Legislation No. 0263-21 to allocate $207 million of Navajo Nation Fiscal Recovery Funds to provide a second hardship assistance check for the Navajo people. This will be considered by the Navajo Nation Council during a special session before Christmas.

The bill also approves the Hardship Assistance Expenditure Plan that will have legislative oversight by the Budget and Finance Committee and administrative oversight by the Nez-Lizer Administration.

According to the Navajo Nation Department of Justice, individuals do not have to reapply for the second allocation of...