RESISTING ARREST
Gallup, Oct. 10
A man tried to resist arrest and headbutt an officer when he was found inside a home in which he didn’t belong.
On Oct. 10, around 1:15 pm, Gallup Police Officer Julio Yazzie was dispatched to 810 S. Sixth St. when a man who was trying to do some work on a rental property noticed the front door was slightly opened. The man said the front door was kicked in, and that when he went inside the house he noticed a man, who was later identified as Elliot George, in one of the house’s rooms.
According to Yazzie’s report, he noticed that pieces of the door jamb had been broken off. He estimated that it would cost about $400 to replace the door jamb.
Multiple officers entered the house, and found George, 27, laying on his stomach on a bed, asleep. The officers woke him up, and he immediately pulled his arms up to his chest. He also began kicking at the officers.
While the officers were trying to place handcuffs on George, he tried to headbutt Yazzie.
George was charged with breaking and entering, criminal damage to property, three counts of assaulting an officer, and three counts of resisting arrest. His preliminary hearing was scheduled for Oct. 19.
A FAKE NAME
Gallup, Oct. 11
Police were called to an apartment building to break up an argument, but they ended up arresting a man named Lucero Labardo after he tried giving a fake name.
Gallup Police Officer Darius Johnson arrived at 650 Dani Dr., the Sagebrush Place Apartments, around 8:30 pm on Oct. 11 when Metro Dispatch received a call about a domestic dispute. When he met with one of the women involved in the argument, she said that everything was okay now and that the woman she’d been arguing with had left. Neither of the women had any reported injuries.
However, the woman did say that a man was still in her apartment, and she did not feel comfortable with him there. She said that the man, who was later correctly identified as Labardo Lucero, was drunk. According to Johnson’s report, the woman only knew that the man’s nickname was “Vardo.”
When Johnson met with the man, the man said his name was “Brent Begaye.” Johnson had Metro Dispatch run that name, and they told him Begaye had a warrant out for his arrest. Johnson arrested him for the warrant and drove him to the McKinley County Adult Detention Center.
According to his report, twenty minutes later Metro Dispatch called and told Johnson that the man’s name was actually Lucero, 25, and he actually had two warrants out for his arrest. Along with his two warrants, Lucero was charged with concealing his identity.
Lucero’s bench trial is scheduled for Nov. 22.
