COURT CASE

8/22, GALLUP

At 8:19 am, McKinley County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Paul Davis, Jr. was notified of a bomb threat by staff at the District Court, 207 W. Hill Ave.

Upon arrival at the court, Davis met with the clerk who’d received the bomb-threat call.

The clerk told Davis that the caller said, “I’m going to blow all you p---sies up… all of you,” and then hung up.

“The caller sounded young, like a teenager and spoke in gangster/thug slang,” the police report states.

A search of the premise was conducted and no suspicious items were found. Employees were allowed to reenter the court, and the clerk who received the call filled out a Department of the Treasury Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms bomb-threat checklist, a standard survey about the details of the threat.

SHOTS ANYONE?

8/23, GAMERCO

Just before 7 pm, MCSO Deputy Johnson Lee was dispatched to 704 Portal St. in reference to shots fired at the residence. The female caller, who was at the residence at the time of the shooting, said a man shot at her boyfriend.

Lee arrived at 904 Draco St., where the female caller and her boyfriend, Cruz H. Palomino, 40, waited. They both appeared to be intoxicated, with bloodshot eyes and slurred speech. Palomino told Lee that he rents a trailer to the man who allegedly shot at him and owes him rent money.

According to the report, Palomino said he wanted his tenant to vacate the trailer, and while he spoke to the tenant’s wife, the tenant pointed his gun at Palomino and told him to leave. The tenant then pointed the gun in another direction and shot one round.

Palomino said he wanted Lee to kick his tenant out of the trailer, and became angry when Lee said he could not, as this was a civil case. Palomino also had a warrant out for his arrest.

Lee went to 705 Granite St. to talk to the tenant, but the man he encountered there said he was the tenant’s son and knew nothing about the incident in question.

Lee went to the Portal location to speak with the proper suspect.

At 704 Portal St., Lee made contact with the tenant’s wife, who said she did not know where her husband was. She said she and her husband had an agreement with their landlord to would move out on Aug. 24, which was the next day. While her husband went to get something for the move, Palomino and his girlfriend arrived, drunk. Palomino was holding a crowbar.

Palomino told his tenants he was going to “shoot them out of” the trailer. He then walked to his vehicle, and the wife then heard a loud pop.

Lee returned to Draco Street, where Palomino was still located, and arrested him for his bench warrant.

A neighbor told MCSO that she’d seen Palomino and his girlfriend arrive at the victim’s home and “start yelling and causing problems,” according to the report. The neighbor did not see a gun or hear shots.

Palomino was booked on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and a bench warrant.