ALBUQUERQUE — A Gallup man pleaded guilty Jan. 21 in federal court to shooting and seriously injuring another man during a confrontation on the Navajo reservation in 2024.

According to court documents, on Jan. 22, 2024, Arthur Chee Pat, 69, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, heard a commotion near his residence in Gallup and drove to investigate. Upon arriving at a man's residence, where his son and three other men were gathered, Pat retrieved a firearm from his vehicle. He then fired three gunshots in the direction of one man and two more towards the victim, striking him once in the knee.

After the shooting, Pat fled the scene with his son. The victim was initially...

The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program released "Violence Against American Indian or Alaska Native Females, 2021-2023 Special Report" on the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer at https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov.

This special report posted Jan. 14 examines violent and sexual crimes committed against victims reported as American Indian or Alaska Native women to the FBI’s UCR Program. This does not mean the offenses occurred on tribal lands.

This study uses National Incident-Based Reporting System data from 2021 to 2023 about female victims of violent and sexual offenses who are American Indian and Alaska Native and their relationship to the offender, weapons used against the victims, their...

New Mexico State Police are now investigating an officer-involved shooting that left one man dead in Gallup.

The NMSP Investigations Bureau was requested by the Gallup Police Department to investigate an officer-involved shooting involving Gallup Police officers Jan 22.

State Police agents learned that at approximately 2:10 pm, GPD officers were called to the area of Zecca Drive and Mark Avenue for multiple reports of a male shooting a gun and pointing it at himself.

Officers arrived on the scene and encountered 34-year-old Frankie Davis, who was armed with a shotgun. The officers reportedly instructed Davis to drop the weapon and tried to de-escalate the situation by using a less...

ALBUQUERQUE — A Church Rock man was sentenced to 264 months in prison Jan. 15 after pleading guilty to multiple counts of sexual abuse involving three young victims, two of whom were under the age of 12 at the time of the offenses and one who was under the age of 16.

According to court documents, between January 2014 and December 2021, Nathaniel Luz, 32, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, engaged in sexual contact with two victims, both children who had were not yet 12 years old.

In August 2022, Luz also engaged in a sexual act with a third victim, a child who was older than 12, But not yet 16. had attained the age of 12 years but had not yet attained the age of 16...