Gallup Patrolman Warren Bowannie conducted a traffic stop on a silver Chevrolet Malibu late on March 19 at the intersection of Nizhoni Boulevard and Mendoza Road after it failed to maintain its lane.

Bowannie spoke with the driver, Jake Garcia, Jr., 48, of Gallup, who said the car was new and did not have insurance or registration yet. While Garcia spoke, Bowannie noted he slurred his speech and had bloodshot eyes, and there was a smell of alcohol coming from inside the Chevy. Garcia eventually said he had one can of an unspecified beverage prior to driving.

Garcia agreed to take the standard field sobriety tests, but had difficulty following directions and eventually failed. Bowannie...

THREE DEGREES OF SEPARATION

Church Rock, April 20

A man called the McKinley County Sheriff’s Office after his ex-girlfriend’s sister beat him up.

On April 20 at 9:30 pm McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Nocona Clark was dispatched to 409 State Highway 566 in Church Rock because a drunk man told Dispatch that he had been beaten.

According to the report filed with the McKinley County Sheriff’s Office, Clark met Alonzo Long. He stated that he was in the parking lot at Deadhorse Speedway with his girlfriend and her two cousins when one of the cousins started to beat him up.

Long said he didn’t know the name of the woman who beat him, but she was his ex-girlfriend’s...

Deidre Molly Pete

Oct. 4, 2020, 12:20 am

Aggravated DWI (Second)

A vehicle crash near the Love’s Truck Stop at 3380 W. Hwy. 66 led Gallup Police officers to the scene. The criminal complaint stated the crash victim told officers a woman driving a silver vehicle failed to stop at the stop sign near the I-40 westbound off ramp.

Then a call to Metro Dispatch identified the suspect vehicle traveling west on Highway 118 with what looked like collision damage. Patrolman Julio Yazzie was dispatched to 06E Riggs Ave. near Mentmore where he met a deputy from McKinley County Sheriff’s Office who had found and stopped the vehicle.

The driver, Deidre Pete, 33, of Gallup, did not say...