NAME: Caleb Herman Samm

AGE: 24

BOOKED: 7/6/17

NOTES: Agg. DWI

NAME: Mark A. Delvecchio

AGE: 38

BOOKED: 7/4/17

NOTES: Open Container; Agg. DWI

NAME: Sherolyn Dennison

AGE: 27

BOOKED: 7/4/17

NAME: Richard Thomas Tilley

AGE: 68

BOOKED: 6/29/17

NAME: Ed Whitehorse

AGE: 49

BOOKED: 3/25/17

NOTES: Agg. DWI; Open Container

NAME: Alexander Day

AGE: 24

BOOKED: 3/17

NAME: Lloyd L. Yazzie

AGE: 32

BOOKED: 3/10/17

NOTES: Imm. Notice of Accident; Open Container

NAME: Frederick Henry

AGE: 62

BOOKED: 3/10/17

The quick actions of a Mentmore resident whose mobile home was broke into, led to the arrest of Carlton Kaamassee July 3.

According to McKinley County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Nocona Clark, Dino Bailey was home when Kaamassee allegedly broke his window and kicked in the front door.

Any attempts to hold onto the suspect were thwarted when he ran off. But another deputy caught up with him and placed him in a patrol unit.

Bailey identified Kaamassee, 38, as the botched burglary suspect.

“On the front door of the mobile home there was evidence of forced entry as if the suspect kicked the front door from the outside in,” according to the deputy’s report. “The door had a shoe...

ALBUQUERQUE – Nochise Martinez, 23, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Ramah, N.M., was sentenced July 12 in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 48 months in prison for his conviction on a voluntary manslaughter charge. Martinez will be on supervised release for three years after he completes his prison sentence.

Martinez was arrested on Jan. 4, 2017, on a criminal complaint charging him with killing a Navajo man on the Ramah Navajo Indian Reservation in Cibola County, N.M., on Dec. 31, 2016. According to the criminal complaint, Martinez stabbed the victim multiple times during a fight.

On March 27, 2017, Martinez pled guilty to a felony information charging him...

A federal court has thwarted plans by the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to suspend an Obama-era rule tracking and cutting methane pollution from the oil and gas industry.

Last month, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt suspended his agency’s implementation of the rule, which was opposed by the American Petroleum Institute, the Texas Oil and Gas Association and the Independent Petroleum Association of America. But on Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia sided with six environmental groups and granted an emergency stay of Pruitt’s suspension. In their opinion, the appeals court judges wrote that Pruitt’s suspension of the rule...