KOUNTRY
KRIME
8/15, THOREAU
McKinley County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Monty Yazzie was dispatched to BJ’s Kountry Store at 113 Hwy 371 in reference to a drunk and disorderly suspect, who left the business just before Yazzie’s arrival. Yazzie found Joshua Williams, 20, in the lot of 92 Hwy 371.
The victim, who was bleeding from the face, said Williams asked him for money, and when the victim didn’t give him any, Williams attacked him.
Williams was booked for aggravated battery.
MEDICAL
MONSTER
8/13, GALLUP
At 3:40 pm, Gallup Police Department Officer Ronnie Gonzales was dispatched to Big 5 Sporting Goods at 710 U.S. 491 in reference to a man having a heart attack.
Medstar was transporting Michael Shane Parker, 36, when he became combative and the emergency vehicle had to stop in the middle of 491, north of Maloney Avenue.
Upon arrival, Gonzales heard Medstar personnel trying to calm Parker down. Gonzales cuffed him to prevent him from causing anyone harm.
“Michael Shane Parker was just angry at the whole world,” Gonzales wrote in his report.
Parker had spit into one of the Medstar personnel’s mouths and punched another. He was booked for assault on health personnel.
HIGH AT HIGH SCHOOL
8/10, FORT WINGATE
MCSO Deputy Jasmine Jaramillo was dispatched to Fort Wingate High School at 1737 Shush Dr. in reference to a student with drugs. She spoke with the student, who claimed that while walking around campus a few days prior, he’d found a square of foil on the ground that had a white substance inside it.
According to the report, the student put it in his pocket and showed it to a few people “to fit in and be cool.”
When given field sobriety tests by a school counselor, the student was found to be under the influence of narcotics; there were also alcohol containers at “the top of his dorm ceiling.”
The white substance was logged into evidence to be tested.
CUFFS AND
A K-9
8/ 9, GALLUP
Around 3:15 pm, GPD Officer Ronnie Gonzales was dispatched to 500 N. Ninth St. in reference to a domestic dispute.
According to the report, at the scene, the victim said Kevin Paul Sherman, 39, choked her. There were visible marks on her neck. She said Sherman was her boyfriend, and she wanted them to hitchhike back to Chinle, Ariz., when Sherman became angry and choked her.
As Gonzales was approaching Sherman, the victim told him Sherman had a knife. Gonzales told Sherman he wanted to talk to him, but Sherman said, “F--- you,” and “I want you to shoot me just shoot me.” He began walking south along a fence line.
Gonzales followed him to the concrete platform of the Gallup Independent, and asked Sherman to show him his hands. Sherman put his hands inside his pocket. There were lighters in his left hand. He continued to tell Gonzales to shoot him.
A supporting officer arrived with a K-9 and tased Sherman, but Sherman held onto the railing and did not go down. When Gonzales came closer, Sherman climbed along the chain-link fence.
When he saw Gonzales’s handcuffs, Sherman said, “no way your going to have to kill me.”
The supporting officer sent his K-9, which made contact with Sherman’s right calf. Sherman resisted, and the dog pulled him to the ground. Gonzales cuffed Sherman and found a trail knife in a pouch pocket.
Medstar treated Sherman, who was then booked on charges of aggravated battery and resisting arrest.
BURGLARIES/LARCENIES
8/17: A vehicle was reported stolen from Gamerco.
Scrap metal and old car parts were taken from the yard of a residence in White Cliffs area.
8/16: An unknown male took a 30 pack of beer from Deadhorse Mustang and left the area in a vehicle.
A female had her phone stolen from the bathroom at T&R Market.
8/10: Unknown subject took rare coins and credit card from residence in Thoreau.
Unknown person broke into the law office in Yahtahey and took a 12-pack of soda.
WARRANT ARRESTS
8/17
Leroy Bowman
Serwin Saunders
Jacquelyn Brown
8/16
Layne M. Platero
8/15
Thomas Patrick Mulvey
Spencer J. Ashley
Ashley Orozco-Otero
Nathaniel Lee
8/14
Edison Yazzie
8/13
Travis James
8/12
Tyson Ray Wood
Darren Natoni
Timmy Yazzie
Clifford McAdam
8/11
Andrietta H. Joe
Hubert McCray
8/10
Rachel J. Livingston
Arthur Thompson
8/4
Harold Bia
