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Gallup Police looking for Frank Jones

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Gallup Police are looking for a missing person. Frank Howard Jones was last seen on May 12 around 4:30 pm after being dropped off by family members at O'Reilly's on the east side of Gallup.

Jones' family members have not heard from him since.

Frank Jones has a medical condition. He is 61 years old, five-feet-eight inches...

Weekly Police Activity Report

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VISITOR IN THE NIGHT

Prewitt, April 28

After a woman unexpectedly showed up at his house at midnight one night, a Prewitt man was left with a shattered car window.

On April 28 at 12:14 am McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Galvin Panteah was dispatched to 3 Elyse Drive in Prewitt because a man had called in saying his car’s window had been shattered.

When he arrived at the house Panteah met with the victim who explained that a woman named Relda Martinez showed up at his house unexpectedly at midnight and punched him. After she punched him, the man said Martinez left, but eventually came back.

The Panteah man stated that he heard glass break and he saw Martinez leave his property...

Dead body found in retaining pond

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A dead body was discovered in a retaining pond at the Wastewater Treatment Plant on the west side of Gallup at 800 Sweetwater Place on April 13.

When Gallup Police officers  arrived they were shown to the body by the man who called in the incident. It was on the north side of Sanostee Drive at the bottom of a retaining pond that is no longer in use.

The Gallup Fire Department assisted detectives in recovering the body.

The body was identified as that of Ferlin Yazzie, 35, of Yatahey, a Native American man. The investigation is ongoing.

Motel shooting leaves questions

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A 29-year-old man on a bike was shot in the parking lot of the America’s Best Value Inn at 2003 W. Historic Hwy. 66 in Gallup at 7:20 pm May 5.

Reports from the Gallup Police Department indicate the man, identified as Kyle Sands was with three other bicyclists, two male and one female, when a car with tinted windows which could have been gray, silver, or black appeared.

A man at a nearby Lotaburger said he heard a shot and one of the men on one of the bikes fell.

His description to Officer Alana Bradley said the two males and the female left westbound in the gray car on Highway 66. He described the males as wearing white shirts and the female as skinny and in a gray...

WEEKLY DWI REPORT

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Mckyale Tso

Dec. 16, 2:39 am

DWI

New Mexico State Police Officer Alejandro Solis-Torres was patrolling eastbound on Highway 264 near mile post 16 when he saw a red pickup truck traveling westbound with only one headlight. Solis-Torres turned to follow the truck, activating his unit’s emergency equipment to conduct a traffic stop.

The truck turned north onto a dirt road covered in snow and attempted to flee, but the driver lost control and crashed into a berm alongside the road. The driver, later identified as Mckyale Tso, 24, of Mexican Springs, N.M., got out and tried to run, but he was apprehended by Solis-Torres.

The report stated Tso smelled of alcohol. He was arrested for...

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