Española Police officers, Ohkay Owingeh Tribal Police, Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies and State Police responded to the following calls:
Baked at McDonald’s
Monday, Aug. 23
• 7:51 a.m. — A caller from Española Middle School said they caught someone “doing graffiti” on camera.
• 8:06 a.m. — A Paseo Don Juan caller said she could hear her neighbor screaming and pounding on something.
• 9:52 a.m. — A Highway 84 caller asked police to check on her sister because she was in a domestic dispute with her boyfriend and she had not heard from her since Friday.
• 10:44 a.m. — A Lucero Center caller said someone asked her what time she got out of work, which she took as a threat.
• 11:33 a.m. — A McDonald’s caller said there was a man sitting in a Ford Tempo in the parking lot and he was smoking marijuana.
• 2:10 p.m. — A Paseo de Oñate caller reported a female in a white four-door Cavalier who had a four-month-old baby in her lap. The caller said the female was getting ready to leave and put the baby in a car seat, but she nearly hit a utility truck when she pulled out.
• 3:23 p.m. — An Ash Loop caller said she was pregnant and a man she knew was drunk and breaking things in her house. She said he broke some family pictures and her hair straightener.
• 5:36 p.m. — A Fairview Lane caller said he saw a man choking a woman and pushing her up against a fence near the Española High School. Police could not find the couple.
• 9:27 p.m. — A County Road 92 caller said he was in a fight and thought he might have a broken hand.
Chomped By Centipede
Tuesday, Aug. 24
• 12:20 a.m. — A Private Drive 1030 caller said she heard a shot then someone yelling. She later said there was someone walking around her mother’s house with a rifle and a flashlight.
• 10:20 a.m. — A County Road 87 caller said he found a man outside his bedroom window while his wife was in the shower. Call logs state that it was a misunderstanding between neighbors and no report would be taken.
• 12:56 p.m. — A Valley Drive caller said people inside a green Ford Explorer were driving slowly through the neighborhood and looking at houses.
• 3:34 p.m. — A Triple S grocery store caller said there was a drunk man in front of the store who had bandages on his hands. Police took the man for detoxification.
• 5:09 p.m. — A North Prince Drive caller said someone broke into his home and took a 36-inch television and $60 in cash. The burglar pried open the window with a tire iron, which was still in the driveway.
• 6:35 p.m. — A P&L Grocery caller said there was a shirtless man showing a gun to people. They said later someone said it was a BB gun and the man left the area.
• 11:13 p.m. — A State Road 399 caller said he was bit on the foot by a centipede and now his foot was turning blue.
• 11:58 p.m. — A State Road 68 caller said there were people with guns running around his yard and he could hear them “dropping” bullets.
Skunk Guest Felt Awkward, Leaves
Wednesday, Aug. 25
• 12:09 a.m. — A North Riverside Drive caller reported a fight between people in a lifted Avalanche and a gold Cadillac. Logs stated the man later said he did not want to make contact with the police, because they were eight minutes too late and the people involved in the fight were gang members and thugs.
• 12:26 p.m. — A McCurdy School caller said a man ran onto campus and they wanted him removed. They said the man appeared to be “out of it” and school security had the man “down on the grass” by the student center.
• 3:40 p.m. — A Walmart caller said he went into the store and forgot to lock his vehicle. When he came back his laptop was missing from the car.
• 4:44 p.m. — An El Rey liquor store caller said a man without a shirt tried to shoplift. The shoplifter ran toward Allsup’s gas station. The caller said an employee was attacked.
• 9:25 p.m. — A County Road 1 caller said there was a skunk in his enclosed porch. He later said the skunk got out on its own and he didn’t need help.
• 9:29 p.m. — Police responded to a domestic dispute at Highway 84 in which dispatchers could hear someone screaming that he would beat up the cops and a woman.
Drunk Race
Thursday, Aug. 26
• 4:34 a.m. — A County Road 95 caller said someone tried breaking into his home earlier in the day and he fought with the person. He said he thought he broke his hand defending himself.
• 7:48 a.m. — A South McCurdy Road and North Kiva Lane caller said kids were throwing stones at passing cars while they were waiting for the bus.
• 10:53 a.m. — A State Road 76 caller said she woke up in the morning and found that someone egged her house.
• 11:52 a.m. — An Española Middle School caller said there were two females fighting and one was a tribal member. School security broke up the fight.
• 4:04 p.m. — A Victory Outreach church caller reported a drunk man who nearly stumbled into traffic.
• 4:11 p.m. — A Dairy Queen caller complained about a group of men who were coming into the store, then running across to the Floral Expressions store. The caller thought the men were drunk.
• 7:18 p.m. — Callers at Radio Shack reported another severely drunk man who almost fell into traffic.
• 8:15 p.m. — A Wendy’s caller complained that two men, one who was in a set of leg braces, were panhandling behind the business and harassing customers.
• 9:13 p.m. — A Dakota Lane caller said an 18-year-old man was attacked, his nose was broken and his braces were stuck in the side of his cheek.
Pitbull Trees Couple
Friday, Aug. 27
• 2:05 a.m. — A County Road 1 caller said her house was broken into and a Playstation 3, a laptop and surround sound speakers were taken. She added that there was a pickup truck full of men that kept driving past her home and the men were yelling things.
• 3:41 a.m. — A Drum Place caller said a woman walked into the wrong house and scared the person inside.
• 8:13 a.m. — A North Riverside Drive caller said she was at a gas station and a man was whistling at her.
• 12:15 a.m. — A caller said a man and a woman were shooting up underneath the trees near El Parasol.
• 1:39 p.m. — A Villa Del Norte Apartments caller said she was on oxygen and burned her face and hair when she lit a cigarette.
• 3:49 p.m. — A County Road 41 caller said his brother was acting strangely, that he was hallucinating and seeing people.
• 3:52 p.m. — A County Road 41 caller reported that there was a 2-year-old on the roadway. The mother picked up the child and the police told her to keep a better eye on him.
• 7:40 p.m. — An Española Elementary School caller said she and someone else were being chased by a pit bull. When they called, the pit bull was sitting under a tree and the caller was standing on top of a wall.
Aggressive Repo Woman
Saturday, Aug. 28
• 7:28 a.m. — A Calle Jose Trujillo caller said there was a dog in the area that looked like someone shot it in the leg. Animal Control officers could not find the dog.
• 7:32 a.m. — A Calle de Pajarito caller reported that there was a female on top of a red car, screaming at a man to give her the money.
• 10:20 a.m. — A Ranchitos Park caller reported that a concession stand in the park had graffiti stating “West Side Locos 13.”
• 6:22 p.m. — A Santa Claran Casino Hotel caller reported there were two small children in a gold Hyundai Sonata who were not in car seats or wearing seat belts.
• 10:58 p.m. — A County Road 57 caller said children were throwing rocks at the road from a nearby hill and they broke his windshield.
Jose Cuervo Liberated
Sunday, Aug. 29
• 12:22 a.m. — A Hindi Trailer Court caller said there were “several drunk guys” punching the windows out of an abandoned trailer.
• 6:32 a.m. — A Santa Clara apartments caller said there was a drunk man upstairs yelling and banging on the walls. The caller said the shirtless man was last seen on the second floor of the apartments, holding a board.
• 10:44 a.m. — A San Pedro Shell gas station caller complained there was a woman there trying to prostitute herself. There was a man with her and they took papers out of the paper box and tried selling them.
• 1:33 p.m. — A Vista Del Rio Apartments caller said she warned her downstairs neighbors not to smoke weed because it comes up into her apartment. She said they ignored her and now her whole apartment smells.
• 4:16 p.m. — A Walgreen’s caller said someone stole a bottle of Jose Cuervo from the store and left in a car with two other men.
• 7:07 p.m. — A Santa Cruz Post Office caller said there was a three- or four-year-old child hanging out of a window to a vehicle and the vehicle was driving all over the roadway.