“SPIDERS OR WEED”

Gallup, Sept. 5

A McKinley County Sheriff’s deputy found a man hanging out in a ditch with some drug paraphernalia. He said he had only found it, but he’s now facing charges.

On Sept. 5 while on duty, McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Jacob Valle met a man named Nathaniel Joe in the ditch next to the SpringHill Suites, which is located at 1025 W. Lincoln Ave.

While Valle was speaking to Joe, 51, he noticed that the man had some aluminum foil with a black burnt-like substance on it. When Valle asked him about it, Joe said he was picking up trash. He was also reportedly holding a small metal pipe.

According to Valle’s report, Joe said he was holding...

After Facebook posts began popping up saying that local law enforcement had caught the person[s) responsible for online threats about potential school shootings, McKinley County Sheriff James Maiorano III said that information is false.

On Sept. 26 posts started appearing online stating that local police had found and arrested the person allegedly responsible for the online threats.

Mairoano said he believes that rumor may have started when the Gallup Police Department made an appearance at Miyamura High School on Sept. 26. Officers took two boys off a school bus to be questioned about social media posts they wrote.

However, the boys were not the original posters of the threat, and...

UPDATE: As of 2:57 pm, the scene was cleared and Window Rock High School's lockdown was lifted.

The Navajo Police Department is investigating a stabbing at the Window Rock High School, located in Fort Defiance, Ariz.

According to a Sept. 27 NPD Facebook post, the suspect is detained and the victim is being treated at the local hospital. The school has issued a soft lock down and will continue until the end of the school day. There is no threats at the school and parents are able to check out their children from the school.

This incident has no connection with the recent school threats.

Any further updates will be published when they become available.

PHOENIX — A man from Arizona has been sentenced to life in prison after he reportedly murdered a woman.

Tre C. James, 31, of Pinon, Ariz., was sentenced on Sept. 23 by United States District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to life in prison on count one and an additional 10 years in prison on count two to run consecutively, for the murder of Jamie Yazzie, a woman classified as a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Person from the Navajo Nation. A federal jury previously found James guilty of First Degree Murder for Yazzie’s death. The jury also found James guilty of several acts of domestic violence committed against three other women, all members of the Navajo Nation. Rayes sentenced James to...