Española Police, Ohkay Owingeh Tribal Police, Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies and State Police responded to the following calls:
Not Harassment
Monday, March 1
• 5:24 a.m. — A woman reported she “just woke up to get ready” and noticed her Dodge Stratus was missing from her driveway. She said her daughter has keys to the car, but she was in Albuquerque. The woman said her daughter’s ex-boyfriend might have taken the car.
• 7:19 a.m. — A female caller asked to file a report against her father for harassing her over the telephone. The woman said she wanted to talk to her mother and her father wouldn’t let her. An officer told the woman that was not harassment.
• 8:05 a.m. — Police responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle and an unfamiliar man on Calle Milagro, but discovered the man had just run out of gas.
• 8:14 a.m. — A vehicle with busted windows, a child inside and the music on “full blast” was taking up an employee parking spot at Zia Credit Union, an employee reported.
• 2:43 p.m. — A man and woman were reportedly pushing each other in the street near the Los Niños Kindergarten Center.
• 5:31 p.m. — A man said someone was using his Social Security number to file taxes.
• 7:32 p.m. — A caller said there was a family all dressed in red and black refusing to leave Family Dollar.
‘Fort To Sleep In’
Tuesday, March 2
• 12:13 a.m. — A man looked like “he was trying to build a fort to sleep in for the night” behind Red’s Steak House, a caller said. The caller said he told the man he couldn’t do that and the man walked off, but kept hanging around Wendy’s dumpsters.
• 12:47 p.m. — A caller reported some people selling dogs out of their car at Lowe’s Super Save.
• 2:31 p.m. — A man was reportedly walking down a road in Lindrith and yelling for his wife.
• 4:28 p.m. — A passer-by reported two men fighting at the Block-Salazar Mortuary.
• 7:13 p.m. — Two men and two women were trying to fight in the rest room at Wendy’s, a caller said.
Dead Dog
Wednesday, March 3
• 1:56 p.m. — A man reported his niece threw a soda at his car in the Walgreens parking lot and ran away. The man said his niece is “always doing that,” so he was going to chase her toward the Fairview Café.
• 2:37 p.m. — Someone stole a knife from the woodworking class at Española Valley High School, a teacher reported.
• 3:23 p.m. — A woman said her neighbor was in her car revving the engine and yelling, “There is a dead dog,” apparently in reference to the caller’s son.
• 3:51 p.m. — A caller reported a drunk man waving a stick at people as they left Lowe’s Super Save.
• 5:10 p.m. A woman reported a light brown horse in the middle of Prince Road.
• 5:42 p.m. — Children about 11 years old were pulling beers out of their pockets and drinking them at the bottom of Calle Duran, a caller said.
Drunk and Stubborn
‘Elderly Gentleman’
Thursday, March 4
• 12:16 a.m. — A man and a woman were fighting outside their house at the Calle del Pajarito public housing neighborhood, a neighbor reported.
• 10:18 a.m. A state Park and Ride driver asked Sheriff’s deputies for help handling a highly-intoxicated “elderly gentleman” who refused to get off the bus.
• 4:03 p.m. — Española Valley Fiber Arts Center staff reported a woman in jeans and a jacket who was trying to steal a weaving worth $700.
• 8:05 p.m. — A man in a red shirt was fighting a man in a white tank top outside the Santa Cruz Post Office while a third man watched, according to a witness who said it “looked pretty bad.”
Raccoon Eludes
Officers
Friday, March 5
• 3:57 a.m. — A Paseo de Vista woman said her ex-girlfriend and her ex-girlfriend’s father were trying to break into her house through the back door. The caller said the suspect had left her a message saying she was in the house.
• 9:13 a.m. — A man told Española Police his brother stole his identity and used it when he was arrested for DWI.
• 9:43 a.m. — Animal control officers could not capture a raccoon hiding in the attic of a Riverside Drive home, so they set a cat trap to catch it.
• 11:17 a.m. — Bubble Zone car wash employees reported some men drinking behind the business. Police dispersed the men.
• 1:00 p.m. — Wal-Mart staff reported a man and a woman who were trying to shoplift a 50-inch plasma TV and several DVDs. The couple tried to leave the store with the goods using a receipt for similar items they had purchased last month.
• 6:20 — A Tierra Amarilla woman said her drunk father attempted to beat her with a piece of wood after she tried to stop him from driving his car.
• 7:30 p.m. — A Lower San Pedro woman said a man who had been knocking on her windows was now hiding in her closet.
• 8:26 — A customer leaving Wal-Mart said a man in a silver Honda Accord kept following him around and telling him he could do anything he wants.
Group Shoots
At Prairie Dogs
Saturday, March 6
• 8:02 a.m. — A Chimayó man said his wife was blasting Mexican music and throwing stuff around. The caller told police he and his wife had been drinking the previous night.
• 9:23 a.m. — A group of people was shooting prairie dogs outside the El Rito Public Library, according to a man who called dispatchers and then hung up immediately.
• 12:53 p.m. — An anonymous caller said she was afraid a bunch of small puppies by the side of the road near Chili’s might get hit by a car.
• 11:29 p.m. — Ohkay Casino staff reported a fist-fight by the snack bar.
Wall-Rattling Beats
Sunday March 7
• 4:04 a.m. — A drunk man told deputies his designated driver was not taking him where he wanted to go. The driver told deputies she was taking the man to his parents’ house because his mother wanted him home. Deputies told the woman to take the man home “like his mother wanted.”
• 9:42 a.m. — A Las Lomas apartment resident asked police to tell a neighbor to turn down his music, which was so loud the walls were vibrating.
• 11:03 a.m. — A Wal-Mart security guard told police that when he confronted a group of five men who were stealing power bait and “stuff for fishing,” one man threatened him with a knife before they all ran outside.
• 2:00 p.m. — A man told deputies the sheriff had given him permission years ago to put speed bumps in front of his house, and now his brother had removed them with a front-loader. Deputies advised him to file a civil complaint in magistrate court.
• 3:55 p.m. — A group of children stole several items from his house, including gas cans, and had used them to start a fire in an arroyo five miles outside Española, he said. The man said he wanted officers to have a word with the parents of the children.