DOMESTIC TROUBLE

Gallup, Feb. 16

Gallup Officer Cindy Romancito was dispatched to the Howard Johnson, 2915 W. Hwy. 66, in reference to property damage.

When she arrived at the room specified in the call, she made contact with Lashonda Begay, who told her she and her ex-husband, Brian Shawn Scott, 41, of Mentmore, had met the night before at the room. While things seemed to go smoothly at first, Begay said Scott got upset and they began arguing at about 10 pm and Scott would not allow her to leave.

Begay was able to leave the room shortly after 10 pm and returned later at 3 am. Scott was not around, so she went to sleep. When she woke the next morning, she realized the TV...

Gallup Police officers were called to Walmart in Gallup in reference to an armed robbery about 7:30 pm on March 3. Two adult women, both of Gallup, were walking to their vehicle in the parking lot when they were stopped by Cody Howard, 33, of Mentmore, and Vanessa Reeves, 28, of Mentmore.

Howard allegedly brandished a pistol and even fired off a shot while demanding the women’s purses. The victims gave their purses to the robbers, who then fled the scene in a vehicle. The victims were not injured. Detectives were called to the scene.

Meanwhile, GPD officers searched for the suspects. At about 9:30 pm, they located the suspect vehicle in the area of Sonic North, 1001 Hwy. 491. The...

The New Mexico State Police Investigations Bureau was contacted by the McKinley County Sheriff’s Office to investigate a police shooting involving a McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy March 2.



State Police Investigations Bureau agents learned that at around 11:30 pm, March 1, a McKinley County Sheriff's Deputy responded to the Flying J gas station located on Interstate 40 near mile post 39 for a call of a disorderly man. The deputy arrived to find the man on the westbound off ramp to Interstate 40 at around mile post 39.



During the encounter with the individual, the deputy fired his weapon and struck the individual. The man was transported by ambulance to an area hospital where...

A Ramah man is now being held in federal custody in Albuquerque after being charged with assault resulting in serious injury.

Nathan Singer Lee, born in 1994, was arrested on Feb. 7 in Gallup.

According to federal court records, Lee was arrested by tribal police on Feb. 1 at the home of the victim when he got in a fight with one of her neighbors. He got out of jail later that day and asked the victim, who is identified in court records only as “Jane Doe,” if he could stay at her house overnight.

She agreed, but began having problems with her guest when she found him in her kitchen at 3 am. She said she told him to go back to sleep, but he said he had been waiting up for her.

She...