
A man attacked a woman who was letting him stay at her house after she wouldn’t go get something from her car for him.
On March 2, around 11 am, Gallup Police Officer Anthony Morales was dispatched to the parking lot of El Sombrero Restaurant, 1201 Hwy. 66, after a woman who claimed to have been assaulted by a friend called Metro Dispatch.
When he arrived, Morales met the victim, who said a man named Veltin Montana was staying with her. Montana, 55, from Zuni, allegedly became upset with the victim after he asked to retrieve something from her car.
Montana allegedly started the interaction by yelling at the woman, and when she told him she needed to get dressed before she went...