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Navajo Nation Council focus on critical strategies to address public safety at Diné Action Plan Winter Session

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ALBUQUERQUE — The 25th Navajo Nation Council convened for the Diné Action Plan Winter Session 2024, focusing on critical strategies to address the interconnected challenges of public safety, substance abuse, and youth advocacy across the Navajo Nation Dec. 4 and 5.

Over the two-day session, leaders emphasized the...

Missing juvenile

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The Gallup Police are asking for the public's help in finding a missing juvenile.

Angelina Sosa is 14 years old. She is about five feet and three inches tall, and weighs about 198 pounds. She has black hair and hazel eyes.

She was last seen in Gallup on Dec. 8 around 7:30 pm. She was wearing a black hoodie with white lettering (LTOGOT), black sweatpants, and white tennis shoes. She has scars on her arms and legs.

Anyone with information on Angelina's whereabouts is asked to call Metro Dispatch at (505) 722-2002 or Detective Michael Eley at (505) 726-5466.

U.S. Attorney's Office secures guilty plea in domestic violence case

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ALBUQUERQUE — A Mescalero, N.M., man pleaded guilty in federal court to assault of dating partner by strangling.

According to court documents, between May 5 and May 11, 2022, Kevin El Cavazone, 41, assaulted his ex-girlfriend by strangling her on the Mescalero Apache Reservation.

At sentencing, El Cavazone faces up to 10 years in federal prison. There is no parole in the federal system.

The Las Cruces Resident Agency of the FBI Albuquerque Field Office investigated this case with assistance from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Assistant United States Attorney Matilda McCarthy Villalobos is prosecuting the case.


U.S. Attorney's Office, FBI charge man for Shiprock gas station robbery

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ALBUQUERQUE — A man is charged with robbing the 7 2 11 Gas Station in Shiprock, N.M., after he allegedly assaulted a cashier and stole $276 from the register.

Ryan Douglas Yazzie, 27, appeared before a federal judge on Nov. 26 and will remain in custody pending trial, which has not been scheduled.

According to the criminal complaint, on the morning of Oct. 31, Yazzie allegedly entered the 7 2 11 Gas Station in Shiprock, located within the Navajo Nation reservation. Yazzie is accused of pushing a cashier to the ground and stealing the cash register drawer containing $276 before fleeing on foot.

If convicted on the current charges, Yazzie faces up to 20 years in prison followed by...

Man shoots his father at a Continental Divide jewelry store

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A 25-year-old man is being charged with murder after he allegedly shot and killed his own father at Ortega’s Indian Jewelry Store in Continental Divide.

On Dec. 3, around 3:45 pm, an employee of the jewelry store located at 19 State Hwy. 122 reported that gunshots went off in the store’s bathroom. They informed Metro Dispatch that a man, who was later identified as Trenton Bailey, was now standing outside the business.

In an interview with the Sun, McKinley County Sheriff James Maiorano III said that Trenton and his father, Kenneth Bailey, had allegedly been traveling from Texas to Arizona when their car broke down near the Phillips 66 gas station by the jewelry store. They...

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