PARKING LOT FIGHT

Gallup, March 9

Gallup Police Officer Jared Albert was dispatched to help another officer who was investigating a fight about 2:24 pm.

He raced to Dana Quintero, who said she was in the front of the car near 802 Hwy. 66 and her boyfriend, Labardo Ray Lucero, 23, of Gallup, was in the backseat being belligerent.

She said they got into an argument and Lucero opened the back seat door and looked like he was preparing to jump out even though the car was going 30 miles an hour. Lucero was screaming and yelling and Quintero said she couldn’t understand a word he was saying.

At this point, they noticed a police car in front of them and Quintero said she told...

Jeremy Jensen

Feb. 29, 10:32 pm

Aggravated DWI

Gallup Police Officer Brandon Salazar said he was on patrol on South Second Street when he noticed two males staggering as they went to their vehicle.

He decided to conduct a welfare stop as Jeremy Jensen, 40, of Gallup, started to drive away. When he talked to Jensen, he said he saw signs of intoxication. Jensen admitted he drank four beers during a two hour period.

Jensen agreed to take the standard field sobriety tests and failed. He was arrested for DWI.

He then agreed to take a breath alcohol test, but upon arrival at the police station, Jensen became verbally abusive and refused to take the test because there was not a...

FBI arrests him in Gallup

Carlton Craig Sandoval, 38, of Window Rock, Ariz., has been charged federally with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.

The FBI arrested Sandoval in Gallup March 16.

Sandoval is accused of having a firearm in a vehicle in Navajo, N.M., on Jan. 1.

Special Agent Jonathan Labuhn explained in the complaint filed on Feb. 20 that Sandoval is prohibited from possessing a firearm or ammunition based on a 2015 charge for possession of drug paraphernalia in Maricopa County, Ariz. and a 2010 charge of aggravated driving or actual physical control while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs, also in Maricopa County.

He was also...

None located in McKinley County

SANTA FE - New Mexico state health officials announced additional positive tests for COVID-19 on March 19.

Per the state Department of Health, some of the most recent cases are:

A woman in Bernalillo County in her 80s;

A woman in Bernalillo County in her 40s; the state Department of Health is investigating community spread in this case as this individual had no known exposure;

A woman in Santa Fe County in her 30s;

A woman in Sandoval County in her teens;

A woman in Sandoval County in her 50s.

Including the above newly reported cases, New Mexico has now had a total of 35 positive tests for COVID-19.  They are located in:

Bernalillo County...