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Gallup, Sept. 1

A woman is facing charges of robbery and trying to escape from the custody of a peace officer after she allegedly tried to steal money from a man.

On Sept. 1, around 3 pm, Gallup Police Officer Elijah Bowman was dispatched to the Albertsons grocery store at 1702 E. Hwy. 66 after a firefighter with the Gallup Fire Department called Metro Dispatch and said a fight had broken out.

When Bowman arrived at the scene he met with the firefighter, who said a woman, later identified as Alisa Becenti, 34, had begun fighting a man and hitting him with a cane. She allegedly left the scene heading east pushing a grocery cart.

Bowman found...

TASK FORCE MAKES 13 DRUG, WARRANT ARESTS IN DOWNTOWN GALLUPCleaning up the streets


After multiple community forums where Gallup citizens voiced their concerns about public safety issues in the community, the McKinley County Sheriff’s Office, Gallup Police Department, and the FBI joined forces and created a drug task force to patrol the streets of Gallup.

“Based on the crime forum meetings the community’s been having over the last few months, my office is working with the Gallup Police Department to put together a task force to address the particular issues that we’re struggling with, i.e. property crimes, fentanyl use, and more specifically fentanyl...

McKinley County Sheriff's deputies caught a man with fentanyl and meth inside his car after they pulled him over for driving without a license plate.

On Sept. 11 MCSO deputies stopped a vehicle with no license plate on Interstate 40 on Gallup's east side. The driver was identified as Curtis Woods.

Woods reportedly had over 25 fentanyl pills and almost three grams of methamphetamine in his car. He also had a revoked license. He was arrested on drug charges and traffic offenses.

Gallup Police and the McKinley County Sheriff's Office worked a joint agency operation on Sept. 5 that resulted in a combined 23 arrests for warrants and drug charges (fentanyl, meth, cocaine and heroin).

An estimated 1,200 fentanyl pills were taken off the street. Two more suspected dealers were arrested.