Española Police, Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies, Ohkay Owingeh Tribal Police and State Police responded to the following calls:
Full Moon at Arby’s
Monday, Jan. 19
• 12:11 a.m. — A Calle del Pajarito caller said a man was outside her door yelling her husband’s name and profanities. The man’s girlfriend got him back in the car and drove him back home since he was drunk.
• 4:52 p.m. — A caller reported three juveniles for indecent exposure — they were “showing their backsides to passerbys” near Arby’s.
• 6:59 p.m. — A Private Drive 1529 caller said she had been getting prank calls since 6:17 p.m. The prank caller was playing music into the phone, and she just wanted it to stop.
Flying Ashtray
Tuesday, Jan. 20
• 4:48 p.m. — A Calle Quintana caller said her landlord was trying to get into another tenant’s house. Police made contact with the landlord. He was taking pictures and video of the property that he wanted to show it to his wife. No report was taken.
• 7:33 p.m. — An Esparza Lane caller said someone broke into his camper and took a propane bottle and glasses. He didn’t want to make a report, saying the suspects wouldn’t get caught anyway.
• 7:54 p.m. — A San Juan Apartments caller said two sisters were drunk and fighting. When he walked into their apartment, one of them threw an ashtray at him. The sisters left before police arrived.
• 9:53 p.m. — A Tsigo Bugeh Road caller said a very tall and extremely drunk man was trying to enter her house. He was detoxed.
Captain on Board
Wednesday, Jan. 21
• 3:37 p.m. — A female shoplifter was reported trying to take two half-gallons of Captain Morgan rum from Walgreens.
• 8:32 p.m. — A State Road 76 caller said her ex-boyfriend wrote her a message on a nearby wall threatening to kill her and her new boyfriend. Police took a report.
• 9:25 p.m. — A Ziegler Street caller said when she arrived home she heard some weird noises and her deaf roommate felt something weird. Police checked the residence.
Beer Me, Not My Car
Thursday, Jan. 22
• 10:13 a.m. — A Calle del Rio caller said her sister was on drugs and was arguing with her mother, who just had surgery. Police determined that one sister bought food from McDonald’s for herself and her mother, but not the other sister. Another family member drove from Los Alamos to remove one of the sisters.
• 1:42 p.m. — A woman came to State Police headquarters to report that a man threatened her and told her if she reported it to Española Police they wouldn’t do anything because he knows all of them. State Police advised her to contact an Española Police supervisor.
• 3:42 p.m. — A Chimayó caller said he was having trouble with individuals showing him rude gestures while they were driving by. No report was taken.
• 4:30 p.m. — A Club Tropicana employee said a man and a woman were refusing to leave the area and were harassing customers. One was detoxed.
• 10:41 p.m. — A State Road 30 caller said her boyfriend broke her windshield, threw beer all over her car, and took off running. She admitted to threatening another woman at the scene. The call was transferred to State Police.
Dog-Napping Alleged
Friday, Jan. 23
• 1:03 p.m. — A Rio Arriba County Road 86 caller asked that his sister be removed and began to complain his sister’s son is a drug addict. When police tried to make contact with the caller, he said he “did not want to speak to a badge pusher;” he just wanted it known that his sister had no driver’s license.
• 5:44 p.m. — a Rio Lucero caller said her neighbor trespassed on her property and took her dog. “Suspect denied taking dog, dog home upon my arrival,” the officer reported.
• 5:50 p.m. — A Canada Court caller said her son’s ex-girlfriend kept leaving messages that gangs were going to come after the family. Police took a report.
• 6:55 p.m. — A Santa Clara Apartments caller said a homeless man was doing drugs in the hallway and requested he be asked to leave. The homeless drug user couldn’t be found by police.
• 7:33 p.m. — A Private Drive 1661 caller said someone was fighting with his father, and his cousin had an axe. One person was arrested on an outstanding warrant.
• 9:37 p.m. — An Ohkay Express Mart caller said two men were going through the trash and possibly “busting up one of the vacuum cleaners.” Police made contact with the subjects, who said they were looking for cigarettes.
• 11:11 p.m. — A County Road 111 caller said someone at his neighbor’s house had been honking the horn nonstop for 20 minutes. No report was taken.
Stolen Minutes
Saturday, Jan. 24
• 1:05 a.m. — A North Prince Drive caller said a man used all her cell phone minutes. The caller left the house before the officer arrived, but the officer told her mother that she needed to contact magistrate court about the civil matter. The mother said the caller already received money from the Mexican immigrant who borrowed her phone.
• 12:36 p.m. — A Pacheco Lane caller said she didn’t want her son’s friend, who was possibly under the influence of narcotics, at her house, and had already asked him nicely to leave. “You can hear the male in the background saying that if the (woman) gets him in trouble he’ll mess her up,” a 911 dispatcher noted. She said her son kept returning to the house after being kicked out by police, and he and his friend were stealing from her and she couldn’t get anything back because the stolen goods were at a drug dealer’s house. Officers gave her advice.
• 12:37 p.m. — A Shoe Department employee said a man in the store did not want to take off a pair of shoes. The customer had not walked out of the store but “just refuses to take them off.” Eventually the man left the store without the shoes and was not charged.
The Purloined
Cinnamon Roll
Sunday, Jan. 25
• 12:56 p.m. — A shoplifting incident at Ohkay Express Mart was reported by a witness who saw a man put something in his pocket. Police determined that a man left with a cinnamon roll.
• 12:59 p.m. — A Calle Vigil man said his wife’s family in Las Vegas was calling and threatening to kill him. An officer said he would advise the caller’s Las Vegas relatives to stop calling him and suggested the couple change their number.