Española Police, Ohkay Owingeh Tribal Police, Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies and State Police responded to the following calls:
Free Cable
Monday, March 15
• 2:52 a.m. — A suspicious vehicle was parked by the door at the Hacienda Home Center with its hatchback open. The driver told police he was just delivering newspapers.
• 12:46 p.m. — A Dandy Burger manager reported an employee suspected of stealing. The manager said she was not sure the cashier had robbed the store, but all evidence pointed to her. The employee said she was not working the day the theft took place. Police took a report.
• 1:01 p.m. — A drunk man with a large beard carrying a brown paper bag fell into the roadway three times, according to a passer-by.
• 1:07 p.m. — A Calle del Sol resident said her neighbor was stealing cable, and she wanted to file a report.
• 7:44 p.m. — A man at the El Llano bar in El Rito said a drunk patron was accusing him of theft and threatening to kill him. The man making the threats told deputies the caller had broken the front light of his car two months ago. Deputies stepped outside and saw the man’s car lights were intact.
Drunk Man Wants Car Keys
Tuesday, March 16
• 5:24 a.m. — An Alcalde caller said an uninvited man came to his house and was kicking down his doors. The unwelcome guest accused the caller of stealing his jacket and hiding his phone and threatened to call friends to beat up the caller.
• 9:43 a.m. — A Medanales woman said someone stole her Xanax.
• 9:50 a.m. — An Hacienda Home Center employee said someone cut the fence and stole 42 rolls of fencing. Police took a report.
• 1:22 p.m. — A suspicious man in a black leather jacket was hanging out in an arroyo in the Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo. The man told police he was just waiting for someone and he would leave soon.
• 4:10 p.m. — A San Pedro resident said someone shot up his jeep, but he did not know when it happened. Police took a report.
• 10:53 p.m. — A drunk man said his wife took his car keys and wouldn’t give them back.
Exterminator Finds Pests
Wednesday, March 17
• 12:38 a.m. — A woman said she was involved in a fight but she was getting tired of waiting for State Police to come take a report. She said her assailants left an hour ago in a car with no back window and California tags.
• 10:18 a.m. — The Espanola Family Dollar store manager reported an employee who admitted to stealing money and items from the store.
• 12:05 p.m. — A pest control worker at Villa del Norte Apartments said he walked into a unit to spray for bugs and found three youths using drugs inside. When the teens saw the caller, they dropped a syringe and a vial, he said.
• 5:36 p.m. — A woman broke up with her boyfriend, but he was refusing to give up the keys to her white Volkswagen Jetta, she said.
• 7:39 p.m. — A pit bull killed a man’s cat and was now trying to attack him, he said. Animal control was sent to the scene.
• 11:39 p.m. — A drunk man was sitting on the ground and yelling near Gallegos Scrap Metal, a caller said.
Anti-Laundry
Thursday, March 18
• 1:32 a.m. — A woman said a shirtless man was trying to break into her house. Police could not locate the suspect.
• 8:48 a.m. — A Triple S gas station employee said someone stole his marking gun, credit book, pens and box cutters, and the store had caught a female suspect on tape.
• 10:20 a.m. — Someone used a man’s credit card to buy $92 worth of spyware, he said.
• 1:39 p.m. — A Windstream employee said thieves broke in and stole cable, and that now he had received a call from Gallegos Scrap Metal that someone was trying to sell 110 feet of cable.
• 2:53 p.m. — A Camino Carlos woman said her son started breaking bottles at her house because she asked him to move the clothes from the washer to the dryer.
• 3:31 a.m. — A woman asked to speak to an officer about a man who keeps stopping by her house to ask her for a copy of her keys.
• 7:32 p.m. — A P&L Grocery store employee was allegedly drunk and yelling at customers for owing him money. Police found the store closed.
• 8:47 p.m. — A man sitting on a bench at the Fairview Café had been slumped over for a while, staff said. The man was detoxed.
• 10:43 p.m. — A group of people were drinking, yelling and throwing rocks at passers-by outside the Hernandez Family Dollar, a caller said.
Manager Attacks Shoplifter
Friday, March 19
• 2:48 a.m. — A woman’s ex-boyfriend broke her car window and threatened to batter her sister, she said.
• 7:50 a.m. — A female caller said a neighbor’s dog killed 15 of her chickens. The two parties had come to an agreement about the chickens by the time police arrived.
• 10:26 a.m. — A landlady said she found a bag of needles in her tenant’s house. The woman had to go run errands, but said she would leave the bag of needles on the hood of an Española Police unit parked by the Santa Cruz Post Office.
• 12:38 p.m. — An Espanola Family Dollar manager was holding down and fighting a customer he caught shoplifting, a customer said. The shoplifter apparently had a knife.
• 4:57 p.m. — A Wal-Mart employee said a woman had cornered her inside the store and was threatening to hurt her.
• 5:29 p.m. — Police responding to shots fired on Calle Rodriguez spoke to a woman who said her dog had been shot several times. Three men found in a nearby arroyo said they thought they had shot at a coyote.
• 6:57 p.m. — A woman said she ran into a “friend of her husband’s from years ago” at Wal-Mart, and he threatened to throw fire bombs at her house.
Man Upset With Drug Test
Saturday, March 20
• 9:43 a.m. — An Hoy Recovery Program client became irate after his drug test came back positive.
• 12:09 p.m. — A Santa Cruz man said his 8-year-old granddaughter called him to say she was hungry but her parents were too busy doing drugs to feed her. The girl’s parents said the grandfather was upset because he had been denied custody of the child.
• 1:37 p.m. — A woman said her boyfriend jumped out of her moving car during an argument and was now accusing her of running him over.
• 3:25 p.m. — A man was drinking in the Valley Superette parking lot and hiding his beer behind the UPS box, staff said. The man was detoxed.
• 6:28 p.m. — A man walked into the Sacred Heart Catholic Church chapel, took the keys to the bathroom and disappeared for 25 minutes, a caller said. The man told police he was just trying to stay warm by the heater.
Brawl, Not Break-In
Sunday, March 21
• 12:05 a.m. — A woman’s ex-boyfriend kept calling and threatening to kill himself. Police told him to stop.
• 10:59 a.m. — A woman returned from Albuquerque and found her window and TV were broken. The woman said she wanted to report a break-in. Police determined the woman’s daughter and her boyfriend had fought while the woman was away and had accidentally broken the furniture.
• 1:41 p.m. — An elderly woman was sleeping in a convertible parked in a handicapped spot at the Santa Claran Hotel, staff said. She was awake by the time police arrived.
• 2:50 p.m. — A woman’s ex-husband and his boyfriend sent her an emotionally harassing letter, she said.
• 6:22 p.m. — A Lowe’s Super Save customer said a man wearing red sweatpants who was standing by the cash register lifted up his shirt and threatened to stab him. He declined to file a report.