Española Police, Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies, Ohkay Owingeh Tribal Police and State Police responded to the following calls:
Four-Day Slumber
Monday, March 8
• 1:27 a.m. — A man reported smoke and smelled burnt wires in the Ohkay Casino Convention Center. Police called the Jemez Mountain Electric Cooperative, which told the police the casino’s electricians would need to handle the problem.
• 2:53 a.m. — An Abiquiú woman reported a red truck doing doughuts in the parking lot of Bode’s Store.
• 7:23 a.m. — Española Police reported that a driver they pulled over for driving while intoxicated was hitting his passenger.
• 10:06 a.m. — A Traveler’s Lodge caller said a friend of his had not gotten out of bed in four days. The caller said he wanted the man taken to Los Alamos Hospital but the man was refusing to go.
• 2:45 p.m. — A Rinconda woman reported that a man was squatting on her neighbor’s property and stealing electricity.
• 4:13 p.m. — A caller reported two men fighting at the Dreamcatcher Theatre. One was trying to run the other over with his truck, the caller said.
Chef No Threat
Tuesday, March 9
• 10:36 a.m. — A woman reported that her father called and said he wanted to kill everyone there and himself. The father then called and said he didn’t know why his daughter said that and that he was home alone making himself something to eat.
• 3:25 p.m. — A caller said her mother told her she wanted to break a big-screen television that Aaron’s Sales and Lease was supposed to pick up.
• 5:39 p.m. — Ohkay Owingeh Mini Mart caller reported a suspicious person. The person said he was just filming a miniature movie for college.
Brick-Thrower Back
Wednesday, March 10
• 5:21 a.m. — A man on his bicycle at the Rio Chama Chevron Station called 911 to ask for a ride to his home in Velarde. The 911 dispatcher told the man that the police “are not a taxi service and that he didn’t have a life or death emergency and they could not get an officer out there to give him a ride.”
• 9:42 a.m. — A woman reported a horse was lying on its side with stiff legs in the field next to Angelina’s Restaurant. Animal control officers reported all the animals in the field appeared OK.
• 3:03 p.m. — An El Rito man reported receiving threats from another man who hit him with a brick a few months ago.
• 5:51 p.m. — A female caller said her landlord was trying to evict her and her 3-month-old daughter without notice.
• 9:00 p.m. — A caller reported a woman left the Santa Maria El Mirador group home and had possibly gotten a ride back to Taos where they got her. Police said there was nothing they could do because the woman was in the program voluntarily, not by a court order.
• 9:22 p.m. — A woman reported a white truck speeding up and down Rio Arriba County Road 87 and said there have been burglaries in the area, so maybe it was related to that. Forty-five seconds later the woman said everything was OK because it was her neighbor’s brother in the truck.
Landlord Spoils Fun At Teen Party
Thursday, March 11
• 9:18 a.m. — A man asked police to check out a community service worker at Española City Hall who appeared to be under the influence of drugs.
• 1:06 p.m. — A man reported someone shot out the taillight on his car near McCurdy School.
• 2:36 p.m. — A female caller said Adult Probation officers beat up a man and threw items at a female in a car near Wal-Mart.
• 6:13 p.m. — A man reported his 11-year-old son tried to hang himself with a plastic fish tank pump.
• 10:44 p.m. — A landlady said several intoxicated juveniles were in one of her rental properties. The woman said she went to tell them to turn their music down and they kicked her out and locked the gate.
Drunk Can’t Hold It
Friday, March 12
• 9:05 a.m. — A woman said someone used her name to open up telephone accounts with Windstream and Alltel.
• 11:20 a.m. — A caller said a drunk man took a bunch of cards from Walgreens. Española Police found the man sitting nearby in the mud. Medics cleared the man and police put him in the back of a cruiser. The man told the officer he was going to urinate in his car, and then told him “it was already too late.”
• 3:57 p.m. — A caller said a few children were drinking vodka at one of the tables near the Española skate park. Police cited the individuals for drinking in public.
• 5:34 p.m. — Several callers reported two men fighting outside of Wells Fargo Bank, pulling each other’s hair and throwing punches.
• 6:34 p.m. — A woman reported that her autistic son had gone missing while walking down State Road 76. Sheriff’s deputies found the child 15 minutes later.
Cold-Footed Snitch
Saturday, March 13
• 12:23 a.m. — A woman said her mother called her and told her someone was egging her house.
• 8:37 a.m. — A man reported his cousin spent the night at his house and took off in the morning with his wallet, which contained $100. The man told police he and his cousin were both highly intoxicated the previous night and he wasn’t sure if his cousin had the wallet but “he wanted to do it the right way and he did not have to shoot his cousin.”
• 9:55 a.m. — Two callers reported a horse loose near Northern New Mexico College’s gym.
• 1:23 p.m. — A Chimayó woman reported a machine inside her shop was on fire.
• 7:38 p.m. — A female caller said she saw something on the side of Highway 84/285 that looked like a body. State Police said they had already received a call and had determined it was just trash.
• 8:20 p.m. — A man said he got into a fight with his girlfriend and “she just walked up to him and punched him in the face.”
• 10:21 p.m. — Española Police responded to an alarm at the RHOC gas station. Police found a suspect outside who said his friends were going to break into the store and he didn’t want any part of it so they kicked him out of the car.
Pizza Tosser Found
Sunday, March 14
• 12:38 a.m. — A man said he got home and his mother wasn’t there. He said the lights were on and her purse and car were still there, but not his mother.
• 6:02 p.m. — An Allsup’s caller reported a man driving a blue Honda Accord drove up, entered the store and stole beer twice within a half-hour.
• 9:32 p.m. — A woman reported a man in her kitchen throwing things at her. Police found the man by following his footprints out the back door of the house. He told police there was no physical violence, but “he just got angry, threw a pizza and walked out.”