The Navajo Police Department Window Rock District received a call on Oct. 30 about 1 pm reporting a disturbance at a Navajo Nation employee housing located on Tribal Hill Drive, which was confirmed to be the residence of Navajo Nation Council Speaker, Seth Damon.



Responding officers observed property damage to the residence and apparent blood from the door entrance, prompting officers to secure the area and enter the residence to search for any injured persons. During the walkthrough of the residence, officers did meet a small child and found an intoxicated woman sleeping next to the child.



Emergency medical services were contacted for the woman, however, she refused medical...

By Rick Abasta

Sun Correspondent

November 2 is Election Day.

Ten people are signed up to run for positions with the Gallup-McKinley County Schools Board of Education, five of them running to represent District 5. That means Michael W. Schaaf has four opponents as he runs for re-election as GMCS Board Member. So does Ester Macias. Both of them talked to the Gallup Sun about their races for seats on the Board.

MICHAEL SCHAAF

For the past five years, Schaaf has served as GMCS Board Secretary alongside President Charles Long, Vice President Chris Mortensen, and members Kevin Mitchell and Priscilla Benally.

Schaaf is proud of the school board’s accomplishments during his first term...

Staff Reports

The FBI kicked off a three-month campaign on Facebook using a color photo of the Window Rock arch with a message in Navajo encouraging victims and witnesses of hate crimes to contact the FBI.

"Our message is clear and simple: Hate has no place on the Navajo Nation or anywhere else," Special Agent in Charge Raul Bujanda of the Albuquerque FBI Division said. "For those more comfortable communicating in Navajo, we hope this outreach encourages them to call us or go online if they are aware of a hate crime."

The ad is expected to run through the end of the year.

The FBI has also posted anti-hate crime messages in the Navajo language on Twitter and gave a radio interview on...

A woman who showed up to the Cibola General Hospital in Grants with a gunshot wound brought out officers from the New Mexico State Police.

The New Mexico State Police Investigations Bureau was called and took over the investigation, which revealed that a man identified as Deandre Mirabal, 23, of Grants, and the female victim, Raquel Morales, 21, of Grants, were traveling west in a Ford Mustang on Interstate 40 when they got into an argument and Mirabal produced a firearm.

Near Milepost 85, the woman, who was driving, tried to grab the weapon from Mirabal and then the altercation became physical.

During the struggle for the gun, it went off and hit the woman in the head. Mirabal...