
Public Safety
DWI Suspected in Rollover Crash

Victim tells all from deathbed

GPD are looking for the boyfriend of the woman who died in the hospital Aug 4.
According to Capt. Rick White, GPD Officers were sent to Gallup Indian Medical Center Aug. 3 at 9:57 pm.
Officers spoke to Lorry Lucero, 37, of, Gallup who told them that she had been beaten up by her boyfriend at Hidden Valley apartments on Patton Drive.
“Officers met with her, got her statement,” White said.
Lucero passed away sometime around 1 am on Aug. 4. Detectives served a search warrant on the apartment later that day. According to White, some...
Tragic family tale: Death and Jail

According to the arrest warrants filed by Gallup Police Department Detective Neil Yazzie, the seven month long investigation ended in the arrest of Zachary M. Terrazas, 21, of Vanderwagen, NM along with his girlfriend and mother of the child, Lashana James, 21, of Vanderwagen, NM.
The arrest warrant states that police officers responded to a call of a baby not breathing at the Villa De Gallup Apartments on Klagetoh Drive Jan. 2.
Terrazas was administering CPR to the baby while medical personnel were on their way to...
On the run: Armed robbers, booze thieves

According to GPD Officer Matthew Graham, one of the responding officers, they was sent to El Dorado in reference to the clerk getting robbed at gunpoint. The suspects could only be identified as two Hispanic males, one in a black shirt with writing, a black hat and glasses. The other male was described as wearing a light shirt and shorts.
“Dispatch said she had a hard time getting a description because they forced her to the floor,” Graham said.
Both suspects were said to have been armed and had originally walked into the store as customers.
According to...
GPD recovers stolen copper

According to GPD Detective Charles Wommack, officers responded and were able to gain access to surveillance video that showed two people in a white Chevrolet truck taking electric wiring from the business.
“The suspects are seen getting into the back of the Armored Electric truck where they proceed to take items from the back of the truck,” Wommack said in his search warrant request. “The first item was able to be carried out by one of the suspects. The next item was a large plastic bucket containing the various wire spools.”
Wommack said that he...
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