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Allentown, Houck man wanted for attempted murder

Friday, 05 August 2016 07:28 By Babette Herrmann Sun Editor

Man pistol-whipped, beat female victim

***A man facing attempted murder charges is wanted by McKinley County Sheriff’s Office.

MCSO Inv. Anthony Ashley said that on the evening of July 27, Anthony Hicks of Allentown, Ariz., allegedly assaulted a woman from the east Gallup area.

MCSO Deputy Jasmine Jaramillo interviewed...

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 blew .16 and .17 during breath testing.

Dominic Garcia

July 21, 8:02 pm

3rd DWI, Aggravated

MCSO Deputy Johnson Lee was dispatched to the White Cliffs area in reference to an RV on fire next to X-Treme Rescue and Towing, 425 Hassler Valley Road. While Lee was blocking traffic, Garcia, 34, jumped out of the driver’s seat of a gray truck. He was yelling 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.
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