NO LOVE

2/11, Gallup

A man had just arrived in Gallup at about 6:15 pm when he spotted his father’s car, which had been stolen, driving on Aztec Avenue. He followed it and called police, telling them the vehicle had gone into the Colonial Motel parking lot.

Gallup Police Officer John Gonzales responded, and after confirming that the vehicle had been stolen, arrested the driver, Tyrell Austin Lee, 19, of Vanderwagen, for receiving or transporting a stolen vehicle. Lee also had an outstanding bench warrant.

DOG ATTACK

2/9, Iyanbito

A man told McKinley County Sheriff Deputy Ivan Tsethlakai that he was bicycling near the Lighthouse Church when he and his three emotional...

Jennifer Reeder

Feb. 10, 10:19 pm

DWI, Aggravated

Gallup Police Department Officer Adrian Quetawki was heading south on South 2nd Street when he saw a car driving without its headlights on. Quetawki caught up to the offending vehicle and followed the driver to 2nd Street and Coal Avenue, where the car came to a stop. Quetawki then encountered Reeder, 45, and informed her that her lights were off.

Reeder was slurring her speech, according to the police report, and appeared intoxicated. She hesitated at first to undergo field sobriety testing, but then agreed. She performed poorly on the tests, and then was placed in the back of Quetawki’s patrol car, where she allegedly...

WINDOW ROCK –  On Feb. 12, the Navajo Nation won an important victory in its fight for fair compensation for the harms caused by the U.S. EPA and its contractors from the devastating Gold King Mine spill of August 2015.

The United States District Court for the District of New Mexico denied contractor Environmental Restoration, LLC’s motion to dismiss the Nation’s claims, instead upholding all claims, including CERCLA claims, and claims for negligence, gross negligence, trespass, and nuisance.

The Court also refused Environmental Restoration’s demand to strike the Nation’s request for punitive damages.

The case arose because the U.S. EPA, its contractors, and other...

Plea agreement recommends 10 year prison sentence

ALBUQUERQUE – Elmira Curley, 22, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Navajo, N.M., pleaded guilty Feb. 13 in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to assault and child abuse charges.

Curley entered her guilty plea under a plea agreement that recommends a sentence of 120 months of imprisonment followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.

The FBI and Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety arrested Curley on July 6, 2016, on an indictment charging her with abusing a child resulting in great bodily harm.  The indictment alleged that Curley committed the crime on the Navajo Indian Reservation...