Man breaks windows, yells at people

A man has been charged with assault, breaking and entering, and criminal damage to property after he caused a distribution at a local motel.

On June 10, around 8:30 pm, Gallup Police Officer Charlie Watkins was dispatched to the Motel 6 at 3306 W. Hwy. 66 after a man reportedly broke some of the motel’s windows.

When he arrived at the scene he met with a group of people who were standing near the front entrance of the motel. They told Watkins that the man, who was later identified as Joshua Desiderio, had headed west toward the Navajo Travel Plaza.

GPD Officer Gilbert Gonzales found the man in front of the Navajo Travel Plaza. When Watkins...

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Stanley Spencer

June 11, 6:26 am

Aggravated DWI (Third)

Gallup Police conducted a welfare check on a vehicle parked in the middle of the road and eventually arrested a Mentmore man, Stanley Spencer, 55, for his third DWI.

Officer Elijah Bowman was dispatched to the U-Save Truck Stop at 3405 W. Hwy. 66 and found the vehicle, a white Honda Civic, that had stopped and begun to roll backwards when he arrived.

Bowman pulled behind the suspect vehicle and saw the driver, Spencer, exit and walk towards the front of the vehicle. He approached and met Spencer, noting an overheating smell coming from inside the vehicle. Spencer reportedly told Bowman that some girls...

BREAKING IN AGAIN

Gallup, June 5

A Gallup man was arrested after he reportedly broke into a house multiple times.

On June 5, around 1:15 pm, Gallup Police Officer Cindy Romancito was dispatched to a house located at 501 W. William Ave after a man reportedly broke into it.

When Romancito arrived at the house she met with the realtor who was in charge of showing the house to potential buyers. He explained that a man, who was later identified as Lonnie Jaramillo was in one of the rooms of the house and he wouldn’t leave. The relator said that Jaramillo, 47, had broken in through the house’s back door.

The realtor said Jaramillo had broken into this house before, and when...

Chee Dodge Elementary went under lockdown after a man allegedly showed up to the school with multiple guns and threatened to shoot his ex-wife, who is an employee there.

Around 2:15 pm on June 11, McKinley County Deputy Jarad Albert was dispatched to the elementary school at 64 U.S. Hwy. 491 when a woman called Metro Dispatch and said that a man, who was identified as Donovoan Nuckols, was on school property with a gun.

When Albert arrived at the school he met with two women who were standing in the parking lot. One of the women said that Nuckols, 40, was her ex-husband. She explained that he’d come to the school wanting to talk to her.

The former couple had been married for about...