KOUNTRY
KRIME

8/15, THOREAU

McKinley County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Monty Yazzie was dispatched to BJ’s Kountry Store at 113 Hwy 371 in reference to a drunk and disorderly suspect, who left the business just before Yazzie’s arrival. Yazzie found Joshua Williams, 20, in the lot of 92 Hwy 371.

The victim, who was bleeding from the face, said Williams asked him for money, and when the victim didn’t give him any, Williams attacked him.

Williams was booked for aggravated battery.

MEDICAL
MONSTER

8/13, GALLUP

At 3:40 pm, Gallup Police Department Officer Ronnie Gonzales was dispatched to Big 5 Sporting Goods at 710 U.S. 491 in reference to a man having a heart...

McKinley nearly NM’s lonesome unemployment dove

New Mexico’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.2 percent for the month of June, unchanged from May and down from 6.6 percent a year ago.

The national unemployment rate for June was 4.9 percent, up from 4.7 percent in May and down from 5.3 percent in June 2015.

In McKinley County, home to 71,000 inhabitants, according to U.S. Census records from the year 2014, the unemployment rate in June of this year was 10.1 percent, which is somewhat of a climb from an 8.2 percent unemployment rate in May 2016.

The unemployment rate in McKinley County in June 2015 was 10.8 percent.

In neighboring Cibola County, about halfway between...

GPD: Suspect at large

A lone suspect remained at large Aug. 18 after a stabbing near Camille’s Sidewalk Café at 306 S. Second St.

Gallup Police Department Captain Marinda Spencer said a call about the incident came into dispatch around 9 am that morning. The caller, who was a bystander, reported a stabbing by an unknown male.

Spencer said the victim, believed to be male, was transported to an area hospital, though she did not specify which one.

“We are still gathering details on the situation,” Spencer said. “The investigation is still open.”

An employee who answered the phone at Camille’s said she didn’t know much about the situation, but had heard about somebody...

OFFICIAL: DETAILS FORTHCOMING

By Bernie Dotson

Sun Correspondent

On Aug. 16, New Mexico State Police released the names of the four Gallup Police Department officers involved in a recent deadly shooting.

City police officers responded July 24 to a report involving a Native American male, identified as Alvin R. Sylversmythe, 30, who was threatening people with at least two knives at the Arnold Street public housing.

GPD officers were the first to respond to the scene.

The officers involved in the incident were: Justin Benally, a three-year departmental veteran; Clarissa Morgan, a five-year police veteran; Dominic Molina, a two-year city police employee; and Steven Peshlakai, a...