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Suspect in homicide still at large

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The FBI and the Navajo Nation Police Department are asking for the public’s assistance in finding a person of interest in a homicide that occurred at a residence in White Rock, UT on April 13.

Details of the homicide have not yet been released but FBI officials in Utah said they are searching for a Native American man...

Police still searching for break-in suspects

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The Gallup Police Department is looking for four men in connection with a break-in at the Smoke Shop in Gallup sometime during the night of March 29.

Surveillance video at the store showed two men entered the building and search for money and merchandise. The shots were grainy but the men appear to be in their early 20s.

Anyone with information about the suspects is asked to contact Detective Chavo Chischilly at the Gallup Police Department at (505) 863-1321.

Man sentenced for officer assault

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ALBUQUERQUE — Emory Werito, 41, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Nageezi, N.M., was sentenced April 25 in federal court in Albuquerque to 36 months in prison for assaulting a federal law enforcement officer. Werito will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.

Werito was arrested on Aug. 24, 2017, on a criminal complaint charging him with assaulting and resisting  federal law enforcement officer.  According to the complaint, on Aug. 16, 2016, the U.S. Marshals Service and San Juan County Sheriff’s Office attempted to execute an arrest warrant on Werito. As the officers were executing a traffic stop on Werito, he backed his...

Thief pawns stolen saddle in Albuquerque

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A warrant has been issued against a Grants man who is accused of stealing a saddle from a Gallup pawnshop and then pawning it in Albuquerque.

The warrant was issued Monday against Durwin Nelson, 30, at the request of the McKinley County Sheriff’s Office, which has been looking for Nelson since April 20 in connection with the theft of a $2,000 saddle from T&R Rope and Feed Store north of Gallup on U.S. Highway 491.

MCSO Sgt. Robert Turney said in his arrest warrant that officials for the pawnshop discovered the saddle had been stolen on April 18 when they did their regular weekly inventory. Once they discovered the item was missing, they searched their video logs and found out the...

Woman sentenced for manslaughter after drunk driving kills McKinley County man

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ALBUQUERQUE — Bryana Agnes Henio, 30, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Little Water, N.M., was sentenced April 25 in federal court in Albuquerque to 37 months in prison for her involuntary manslaughter conviction.  She will be on supervised release for three years after completing her prison sentence.

Henio was arrested in October 2017, on a criminal complaint charging her with involuntary manslaughter.  According to the complaint, Henio killed a man by hitting him with a vehicle on Sept. 8, 2017, on the Navajo Indian Reservation in McKinley County.  At the time Henio ran over the victim, Henio was driving under the influence of alcohol.

On Nov. 20, 2017...

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