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Pinehill man sentenced to 10 years for assault, firearms charges

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ALBUQUERQUE – Harrington Alonzo, 34, of Pinehill, N.M., was sentenced Aug. 31 in federal court to 10 years of custody.

In January, Alonzo pled guilty to charges of assault with a dangerous weapon in Indian Country, using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, and possessing and discharging...

FBI seeking information in homicide case

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The FBI has released a poster in the Navajo language to remind the public the agency is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the 2014 death of Amy Lynn Hanson.

Hanson, who lived in Tohatchi, was last seen alive two days before her body was found in an arroyo at State Route 602 and Blue Medicine Well Road in Red Rock, N.M., on the Navajo Nation, on Nov. 30, 2014.

The cause of death was blunt force trauma. Hanson was 25 years old at the time of her death.

The FBI and Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety are investigating.

Anyone with information about Hanson’s death is asked to call the FBI...

WEEKLY DWI REPORT

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Featured DWI

Marland Lee

Aug. 17, 3:45 pm

DWI (Fourth)

While McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Frank Villa Jr. was on saturation patrol, heading south on U.S. Highway 491 toward Chino Loop, he saw a gray Ford truck fail to stop at a stop sign and turn north onto the highway.

Villa turned his vehicle around and began a pursuit. The suspect vehicle pulled over near the 6 mile marker, where Villa conducted a traffic stop and made contact with the driver, Marland Lee, 32, of Yatahey.

Lee said another truck had been following behind him closely, which is why he did not stop at the sign. Villa noted there was no other vehicle in the vicinity during the incident, and that Lee showed...

Gallup police seeks public’s help in suspicious death

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A Native American man in his late 50s or early 60s was recently found dead in the parking lot of a Gallup apartment complex.

Gallup Investigations Captain Billy Padavich was called to Cedar Crest Apartments, 220 E. Nizhoni Blvd., around 8:48 pm on Aug. 22 along with several officers.

“When GPD officers arrived, there were a couple bystanders performing CPR on this individual along with one officer,” he said.

Padavich said the incident is being treated as a suspicious death because of physical trauma found on the man’s body.

Medical personnel took the man to a nearby hospital, where he was officially pronounced dead.

The victim had not been identified as of Aug. 24. There is...

DOJ launches investigation into death of Jacob Blake

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Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, and Eric S. Dreiband, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, confirmed on Aug. 26  that, as indicated in a press conference held earlier in the day by Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul and Kenosha County District Attorney Michael D. Graveley, a federal investigation has been opened into the shooting of Jacob Blake by an officer of the Kenosha (Wisconsin) Police Department.

The investigation will be conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in cooperation with the Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation and other state authorities, and will be...

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