Española Police officers, Ohkay Owingeh Tribal Police, Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies and State Police responded to the following calls:
Stoner Opens Canned Worms
Monday, May 2
• 12:19 a.m. — Dispatchers took a call from Tsigo Bugeh Village and could hear a woman crying while a man yelled for her to get out of the house. The man was saying he hated her. Dispatchers could not understand the woman because she was crying too hard.
• 7:19 a.m. — An Ohkay Express Mart caller could hear an automatic rifle being shot in the area. The caller said he heard about 25 gunshots.
• 3:52 p.m. — A Wal-Mart caller said a man stole a 20-ounce Sprite. The man left in a silver Ford Mustang with chrome rims.
• 4:08 p.m. — A caller said a group of nine kids were fighting by the skate park.
• 8:28 p.m. — An Ohkay Casino caller said there was a highly drunk man who was not able to walk out of the convention center.
• 9:02 p.m. — A County Road 92 caller said his son was high and causing trouble. Dispatchers could hear a man on the line saying, “You don’t want to open up a can of worms.”
• 11:49 p.m. — A Private Drive 1618B caller said he was trying to stop a woman from leaving and he jumped out in front her car, falling down when he did so. A woman said the man was not run over.
Too Much Testosterone Tuesday
Tuesday, May 3
• 9:32 a.m. — A male juvenile at Española Middle School was detained by Juvenile Probation officers for allegedly assaulting a police officer.
• 11:45 a.m. — An Española Family Dollar caller said there were about five people drinking behind the store.
• 12:16 p.m. — A South Riverside Drive caller said a man in a green 2004 Cougar pulled over and started hitting a woman’s head against a window.
• 12:49 p.m. — A Calle Vigil caller said her husband was drunk and passed out under a tree. The caller said she couldn’t handle him when he gets drunk because he gets violent.
• 2:53 p.m. — An Española Hospital caller said a drunk patient was being violent with the staff and trying to grab them.
• 3:38 p.m. — A Private Drive 1514 caller said a man hit her and broke the glasses on her face.
• 6:48 p.m. — A Valdez Park caller said there were two men in the middle of the park with pit bulls. The caller thought they were going to fight the dogs. An officer told the owner of one of the dogs to leave, but he could not find the owner of the other dog.
• 9:39 p.m. — A Garcia Road caller got a death threat from a man who came to his house disrespecting him. The man told him he was dead and took off in his truck.
Stealing People’s Mail!
Wednesday, May 4
• 1:37 p.m. — A Private Drive 1626 caller said her father was breaking all of her belongings and fighting with her son.
• 10:06 p.m. — A West Pueblo Street caller said there were some kids in the neighborhood who were going through her and her neighbor’s mail.
• 2:32 p.m. — A North Paseo De Oñate caller said a man and a woman were breaking into a car. The car owner got on the phone and said nothing was taken from the car and she did not want to file a report.
• 5:39 p.m. — A Calle Redondo caller complained about people in an older model Camaro with primer paint on it. The caller said these people were blasting music out of the Camaro since 2:30 p.m.
• 6:57 p.m. — A County Road 310 caller said her neighbor moved out but left her cats behind. The cats were now wandering around the area.
• 11:12 p.m. — A State Road 581 caller said she was going to take a shower and found her cat dead in her closet.
Party-Pooper Warned
Thursday, May 5
• 2:33 a.m. — A Las Lomas Apartments caller complained about a woman banging and cursing at an apartment. An officer asked for an ambulance because one man was hit in the head with a bottle. One man was arrested for aggravated battery.
• 12:35 p.m. — A Calle Milagro caller complained about two men at her apartment. She said each of the men had outstanding warrants for their arrest and she wanted them taken away. She said she left the apartment because they were both drunk.
• 3:34 p.m. — A Wal-Mart caller said a shoplifter ran out of the store with a PlayStation video game system controller.
• 5:22 p.m. — An Española Recreation Center caller said people were parked in a Chevy Impala smoking marijuana.
• 5:53 p.m. — A Park Street caller said he got in a fight with his wife who threw something at his back, which left a large bruise.
• 9:23 p.m. — A Roadrunner Drive caller said there was a large party with eight underage people drinking alcohol. An officer said everything there was OK and the officer spoke to the person who reported the party, telling him there was no alcohol there and he had better not get called back there.
Drunk, Shirtless, Opinionated
Friday, May 6
• 8:01 a.m. — Someone broke into the car wash vacuum cleaners on North Riverside Drive.
• 8:48 a.m. — The Española Fire Department went to the Española Recreation Center to check on a suspicious gas smell.
• 10:45 a.m. — A Las Cumbres Learning Center caller said a window to one of the Center’s vans was broken and its stereo was missing.
• 1:20 p.m. — A Walgreens caller reported a man who wasn’t wearing a shirt running on Fairview Lane. The man was flipping people off and telling them off. Police transported someone to the Española Jail for detoxification.
• 3:38 p.m. — A Calle Quintana caller said someone dropped off his stolen car.
• 4:10 p.m. — An East Roman Drive caller said her son’s ex kept calling the caller’s mother, accusing her of different things. The caller said this was stressing the mother out. The caller said the ex calls about three times a month.
• 6:06 p.m. — A San Pedro Shell Station caller said a woman was passed out in her car. An employee woke the woman up and the woman walked to the bathroom. The woman, whom the employee realized was drunk, got in her car and drove away. The employee said she couldn’t stop her.
Axe Maniac Comes to Visit
Saturday, May 7
• 12:55 a.m. — A woman near the Sacred Heart Church said she heard five gunshots and a woman screaming. Police checked the area but were unable to find anything suspicious.
• 3:28 a.m. — A Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial Park Road caller thought he heard someone firing a pellet gun at passing cars.
• 10:51 a.m. — A County Road 51 caller said she found her dog dead a few days ago and she found her other dog dead just before she called police.
• 12:33 p.m. — A Highway 64 caller said a gate fell on a man, breaking his hip and causing him to bleed out of his nose. The man had no feeling in one of his legs.
• 1:31 p.m. — Police were warned to be on the lookout for a man from Red Mesa, Ariz., who was possibly driving to Dulce in a gray Dodge truck. The man attacked his girlfriend with an axe, with which he was possibly still armed.
• 5:58 p.m. — A North Paseo De Oñate caller said a man on a motorcycle ran someone in a maroon car off the road and they were now fighting on the road. Police could not locate the fighters.
Sibling Rivalry
Sunday, May 8
• 12:49 a.m. — A Highway 64/84 caller said there were six horses on the road and someone was trying to push them off with her car.
• 2:44 a.m. — A Sunset Drive caller reported a suspicious car full of people who were going through people’s yards and loading things into their car.
• 3:08 a.m. A County Road 105 caller said a 37-year-old man was bleeding from his head after someone beat him up. The man was taken to the hospital.
• 4:18 a.m. — A Rio Chama Chevron caller told dispatchers he was being beaten up by a Mexican “nationalist.”
• 12:34 p.m. — An East Don Filgonio caller said he was getting things from his sister when she pointed a gun to his head, told him that she would have someone beat him up and said she would shoot him if he ever came back to her house again.
• 4:21 p.m. — A Calle De Pajarito caller said there was a green car parked on the street and people were doing drugs by it.