Official: Details forthcoming

On Aug. 16, New Mexico State Police released the names of the four Gallup Police Department officers involved in a recent deadly shooting.

City police officers responded July 24 to a report involving a Native American male, identified as Alvin R. Sylversmythe, 30, who was threatening people with at least two knives at the Arnold Street public housing.

GPD officers were the first to respond to the scene.

The officers involved in the incident were: Justin Benally, a three-year departmental veteran; Clarissa Morgan, a five-year police veteran; Dominic Molina, a two-year city police employee; and Steven Peshlakai, a six-year department veteran.

“The...

Guy Christopher Mannino, a former chiropractor and gun and explosives dealer who lived in Fairbanks, Alaska, had scores to settle—and murder was how he planned to settle them.

After a messy divorce that did not go his way—in part because he had filed for bankruptcy and was under felony indictment for weapons charges—Mannino hired a hit man to kill his wife’s attorney. When the would-be killer turned out to be cooperating with the FBI, Mannino later hired a second individual to kill the original hit man. And his murderous intentions didn’t stop there.

“He had a hit list,” said Special Agent Derik Stone, one of the investigators who worked the case from the FBI’s...

Legal limit is .08

Nicholas R. Brown

Aug. 10, 11:59 pm

DWI, Aggravated

Gallup Police Department Officer Chaz Troncoso was called to assist at the scene of a crash at Third Street and Highway 66, where Brown, 23, claimed he was talking on his phone, ran a red light, and crashed into another vehicle. He smelled of alcohol, had bloodshot, watery eyes, and slurred his speech.

Brown failed field sobriety tests and blew .16 twice during breath testing.

Dariquetta Lewis

Aug. 9, 4:14 am

DWI, Aggravated

GPD Officer Justin Benally assisted a sergeant in pulling over a dark SUV that had run a red light and a stop sign. Lewis, 31, pulled over at 224 E. Nizhoni Blvd. She got out...

KOUNTRY
KRIME

8/15, THOREAU

McKinley County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Monty Yazzie was dispatched to BJ’s Kountry Store at 113 Hwy 371 in reference to a drunk and disorderly suspect, who left the business just before Yazzie’s arrival. Yazzie found Joshua Williams, 20, in the lot of 92 Hwy 371.

The victim, who was bleeding from the face, said Williams asked him for money, and when the victim didn’t give him any, Williams attacked him.

Williams was booked for aggravated battery.

MEDICAL
MONSTER

8/13, GALLUP

At 3:40 pm, Gallup Police Department Officer Ronnie Gonzales was dispatched to Big 5 Sporting Goods at 710 U.S. 491 in reference to a man having a heart...