The Gallup Police are asking for the public's help in finding a missing man named Ervin Yazzie, 58.

Yazzie is five feet and seven inches tall and weighs about 240 pounds. He has brown eyes and black hair.

He was last seen in at the clinic in Thoreau sometime in mid-May. Yazzie may be using his brother's name, Patrick Abieta as an alias. He may be in the vicinity of Maricopa County.

Anyone with information on Yazzie's whereabouts is asked to call Metro Dispatch at (505) 722-2002 or the Gallup Police Department at (505) 863-9365. 

 

Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, of Hawaii, has been charged by a criminal complaint in the Southern District of Florida with firearms charges related to an incident at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach on Sept. 15.

Routh was charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession and receipt of a firearm with an obliterated serial number and made his initial appearance on Sept. 16 before Magistrate Judge Ryon M. McCabe in the federal courthouse in West Palm Beach. A detention hearing has been scheduled for Sept. 23. The investigation remains ongoing.

According to allegations in the criminal complaint, a Secret Service agent walking the golf course perimeter saw...

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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...