Police Activity Report By Tom Hartsock Sun Correspondent
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ots of warrants, three criminal complaints, and a smattering of other items make up the police activ ity for the Gallup Police Depar tment a nd the McK inley Cou nt y Sher i f f ’s O f f ice t h i s la st week.
GPD WARRANTS Ma rcel i no M. A ngele s (Magistrate Court), Chandler Chavez (Out of County), Alfrain Cross (Magistrate Cour t), James Deschine (Magistrate Cour t), Her ma n Jim (Out of County), Emanuel Lewis (Parole/Probation), Shawn A. Platero (Magistrate Court), Sharrie L. Ryan (Municipal Cou r t), Ch r istopher Sa m (Parole/Probation), Ferlanda Smith (Pa role/ Probation), Serena Soce (Municipal and Magistrate Courts), Sharon Tolino (Municipal Cour t), Tyrell Wilson (Out of County), and Marvin Yazzie (Magistrate Court).
MCSO WARRANTS Thoma s Begay (Bench Warrant), Dav id Cordova, A nd rew Fa lcon (S ever a l Wa r r a n t s), L i o n e l H a l e (Municipal Court), Steve Howe, John Melford Kee (Magistrate Court), Zachary Kee (Several Warrants), Lionel Long (Out of County), Aquilino Lopez (Bench Wa r ra nts), A nd re Toledo (Federal Warrant), and Murphy Tullie. Two reports of Battery on a Household member were recorded by GPD Officer Daniel Brown, one on Algarson Nez and the other on Nathaniel Begay. The third Statement of Probable Cause matched the description of a suspect in a burglary. The suspect was using stolen financial cards and at the time was holding his infant child, while a 9 mm Parabellum could be seen under the seat. The suspect Austin Bahe, also had drug parapharnelia in his lap. The child’s mother, Mikisha Jeff, took custody of the child, and Bahe was transported to the MCDC for
booking procedures. An 18-pack of beer was taken from the Thoreau Giant Store, and more beer was taken from the Dead Horse Mustang by a known male. Other larcenies during the week was the theft of a silver 2014 Nissan Sentra from Gamerco, and a gold 2003 Ford Taurus that had a computer and phone inside. Accidents without injuries, include a police vehicle backing into a pole on private property, a vehicle blew a tire and lost control, driving through a right of way fence, a vehicle was sideswiped by a CMV in a construction zone on U.S. 491, mile marker 7, and a vehicle traveling on U.S. 491 had its windshield cracked by a rock from a passing vehicle. Deput ie s a s si s t ed t he Navajo Police Department 13 times during the week and seven miscellaneous incident reports were written, including one of a dog eating his neighbor’s chicken, and another on an intoxicated male subject who tried running from a deputy but fell and broke his leg.
Zuni man sentenced to prison for manslaughter conviction Staff Reports
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LBUQUERQUE – Darold Ray ZunieFeathers, 21, a member and resident of Zuni Pueblo, N.M., was sentenced Aug. 29 in federal court in Santa Fe, to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his involuntar y ma nslaughter conviction. ZunieFeathers was arrested in April 2016, on a criminal complaint charging him with involuntary manslaughter. According to the complaint, ZunieFeathers killed a Zuni Pueblo man by running over him with a vehicle on July 29, 2015, on the Zuni Indian Reser vat ion i n McK i n ley County, N.M. At the time ZunieFeathers ran over the victim, ZunieFeathers was driving under the influence of alcohol. ZunieFeathers was subsequently indicted on the same charge on May 10, 2016.
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L BUQU ERQU E – Thomas J. Yazzie, Jr., 52, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation from Bloomfield, N.M., was sentenced Aug. 29, in federal court in Albuquerque, to 30 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for his conviction on an involuntary manslaughter charge. Yazzie was arrested on Feb. 7, on a n indictment charging him with involuntary manslaughter. According to the indictment, Yazzie killed a man while driving under the influence of alcohol on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Friday September 1, 2017 • Gallup Sun
On Jan. 11, ZunieFeathers pled guilty to the indictment and admitted killing the victim by driving recklessly while under the influence of alcohol. ZunieFeathers acknowledged that the alcohol rendered him incapable of exercising clear judgment and a steady hand in operating the vehicle. T h is ca se wa s i nvestigated by the Gallup office of t he F BI a nd t he Zu n i Police Department and was pr o s e c ut e d by A s si s t a nt U.S. At tor ney Nichola s J. Marshall.
Bloomfield man sentenced to prison for involuntary manslaughter Staff Reports
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Darold Ray ZunieFeathers
San Juan County, N.M., on May 10, 2016. On March 30, Yazzie pled guilty to the indictment and admitted killing the victim, a passenger in his vehicle, by driving recklessly while under the influence of alcohol. Yazzie acknowledged that the alcohol rendered him incapable of exercising clear judgment and a steady hand in operating the vehicle. This case was investigated by the Gallup office of the FBI, the Crownpoint office of the Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety and the New Mexico State Police and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael D. Murphy. NEWS