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WEEKLY DWI REPORT

Friday, 05 August 2016 07:25 Gallupsun Staff

The legal limit is .08

Aaron Ben

July 23, 12:31 am

DWI

McKinley County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Gabrielle Puhuyesva was advised that a grey pickup had crashed in front of T and R Market, 671 U.S. 491. The driver, who was intoxicated, was trying to move the vehicle.

Ben, 21, failed field sobriety tests and...

Weekly Crime Blotter

Friday, 05 August 2016 07:22 Gallupsun Staff

PEEING IN PUBLIC

7/29, GALLUP

Westbound on Wilson Avenue near Andy’s Trading Company, 612 Wilson Ave., while attempting to find suspects involved in a fight at the Third Street Tavern, Gallup Police Department Officer Ryan Blackgoat noticed a bystander waving. Blackgoat pulled over and noticed that the bystander, who smelled strongly of alcohol, was peeing.

When Blackgoat asked Leroy Bitsie, 33, to sit in his police unit, Bitsie refused and “stood there still in a[n] aggressive fighting stance at me.”

When Bitsie continued to refuse, the officer pushed his back to get him inside the vehicle, but Bitsie was aggressive and Blackgoat deployed his spray. Bitsie resisted...

Man arrested for alleged assault on federal officer

Thursday, 04 August 2016 16:27 gallupsun

Larry Emerson Jr., 36, was arrested on Wednesday, Aug. 3 for allegedly assaulting a federal law enforcement officer on the Navajo Reservation.

The FBI apprehended Emerson in Gallup, New Mexico, with the assistance of the McKinley County Sheriff’s Office and Gallup Police Department.Emerson is accused of assaulting a Bureau of Indian Affairs-commissioned Navajo Police Officer in Shiprock, New Mexico, on July 6.

Emerson, of Newcomb, New Mexico, is expected to have an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque on Thursday.

Cibola County man pleads guilty to federal bank robbery charge

Thursday, 04 August 2016 16:20 gallupsun

ALBUQUERQUE – Daniel Albert Chavez, 53, of Acoma, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to robbing a Wells Fargo Bank branch in Grants, N.M.
Chavez was arrested on March 29, 2016, on an indictment charging him with robbing two banks in Cibola County, N.M.

According to the indictment, Chavez robbed the Bank of New Mexico branch located at 824 West Santa Fe Ave. in Grants on Feb. 20, 2015, and the Wells Fargo Bank branch located at 201 North First St. in Grants on Oct. 20, 2015.

During today’s plea hearing, Chavez pled guilty to one bank robbery charge, and admitted robbing the Wells Fargo Bank located at 201 North First St. in Grants, on Oct. 20, 2015.
At...

Dead body found off East Route 66

Wednesday, 03 August 2016 11:07 gallupsun

POLICE SEEK THE PUBLIC'S HELP TO ID DECOMPOSED REMAINS

By Bernie Dotson

Sun Correspondent

***The dead body of an unidentified person was discovered and reported to Gallup Police Tuesday morning.

Gallup Police Department spokesperson Lt. Rosanne Morrissette said dispatch received a call about a dead body from a passerby at 10:38 am on Aug. 2.

“We don’t have identification of the body yet,” Morrissette said. “The investigation is still open.”

The body was found near the Four Corners Welding & Supply, at 606 E. Hwy. 66, on Gallup's east side. The advanced decomposition of the body made it difficult for investigators to at least uncover clues that would help determine a...