ALBUQUERQUE — The FBI and Albuquerque Police Department are looking for a team of robbers who hit an Albuquerque bank on June 22, and fled in a vehicle with front-end damage.

Three suspects were possibly involved, and they fled in a late-model, four-door car with faded gold paint.

The vehicle was missing a front driver-side hubcap and its hood was not closed completely.

The robbery occurred at the Bank of the West at 5401 Central Ave. NE at approximately 3:21 pm.

A male suspect described as approximately 6-feet-tall and skinny entered the bank and demanded money.

He wore a red bandana over his face, a hood over his head, a dark baseball cap, a blue Nike windbreaker, and blue...

The legal limit is .08.

Ryan Gene Plummer

June 17, 8:30 pm

2nd DWI, Aggravated

Things got a little wild when Gallup Police Department Officer arrived to the scene of a DWI traffic stop to assist three other officers. Plummer was reportedly in possession of an 18-pack of Budweiser that was stolen from the Giant Shell station, 3798 E. Historic Hwy 66.

Officer Dominic Molina said Plummer failed to stop at two red lights before he came to a stop. He also fought with the sergeant who went to handcuff him. And it turns out the 2016 KIA he was driving was reported as stolen.

Plummer, 30, refused both the field sobriety and breath tests. In addition to his DWI charge...

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico provided a $10,000 donation to the Jim Harlin Community Pantry June 21 to help fund the Pantry’s Feed McKinley County program.

The donation took place at the JHCP at 1130 Hasler Valley Road. On hand were Alice Perez, chief operating officer at JHCP, Becky Kenny, public information officer with BCBS, and Sammy Chioda, a local businessman and member of the BCBS board of directors.

“It is something that is very respected and very welcomed,” Perez said. “We are thankful for the donation.”

The program provides family-style food products of high nutritional value to supplement meals for qualifying McKinley County residents, Kenny...

Lone robber brandished a pistol; undisclosed amount of cash stolen

By Bernie Dotson

Sun Correspondent

The lone robber of a west side hotel remains on the lam following a June 21 robbery of the Knights Inn & Suites at 3208 W. Historic Hwy 66.

Gallup Police Officer Charles Steele recorded in a report that at about 12:51 am, a male, possibly Native American and wearing a zip-up black hoodie, black sunglasses, and a red bandana, told a desk clerk at the hotel to “give me the money.”

Steele noted that the clerk on duty stated that the robber entered through a west-side door of the two-story building. The robber got away with an undisclosed amount of cash.

“The suspect walked...