Española Police, Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies, Ohkay Owingeh Tribal Police and State Police responded to the following calls:
Pill Popper
Monday, Jan. 25
• 11:06 a.m. — A Rio Arriba County Road 16 man said a neighbor was burning without a permit and wanted the fire department to go out there and tell him to “turn it off.”
• 1:12 p.m. — Two girls began fighting at Española Valley High School, a caller advised.
• 3:28 p.m. — A Calle del Rio woman told a 911 dispatcher she had been vomiting after eating a hamburger the previous night.
• 5:22 p.m. — A caller said there was a man parked in front of the Española Head Start in a green car. The caller checked on the man, who was very drunk but breathing. Responding officers could not get the man to wake up and transported him to the hospital, logs stated.
• 7:11 p.m. — A woman called to report that her very drunk 40-year-old daughter jumped out of her car while the pair were driving on Riverside Drive. The woman said she wanted police to check the area for her daughter.
• 11:24 p.m. — An Española woman called to report that her teenage brother had taken about 30 pills of Clonazepam, a muscle relaxer. When she returned home, the caller said her brother was acting strange and speaking in slurred sentences as if he were drunk. She said her brother kept telling her he was just tired and refused to admit he took the pills.
Haitian Baby Case
Tuesday, Jan. 26
• 6:02 a.m. — An Española man reported that he was friends with an Albuquerque family who may have illegally adopted a baby from Haiti. He said he wanted police to see whether it was legal for the family to have the baby. He also told dispatchers he had no residence but was nonetheless calling from a landline.
• 8:25 a.m. — A caller said that a skunk had been trapped on Calle Romero. Animal Control could not access the home because the owner was not there, logs stated.
• 9:58 — An assistant principal at Española Middle School said five students had set some papers on fire inside one of the lockers. He told police he had one of the students in his office.
• 10:57 a.m. — An Ohkay Casino employee said she was cleaning a room when a man walked into the room, threw her on the bed and rubbed on her. She reported that she escaped and saw the man leave when a hotel inspector passed by.
• 12:39 p.m. — A woman reported that her father keeps going to her house to harass her. She said she wanted a police officer to tell her dad that her mother was not returning to him.
• 2:28 p.m. — A Walgreens employee reported that a customer who was being thrown out was also battering another store employee. The customer was taken to detox, and the employee was treated at the emergency room for his injuries, logs stated.
• 5:28 p.m. — A caller reported that eight or nine dogs were creating a hazard near the intersection of County Road 42 and State Road 68.
Sixth-Grade Weed
Wednesday, Jan. 27
• 1:06 p.m. — A Pojoaque woman reported that her cousin bought drugs from a man in a white Ford Expedition. She said the man was headed toward Española, and she hung up the phone when asked for her name, logs stated.
• 2:39 p.m. — An Española woman said her daughter did not return home from high school. The mother said when she called her daughter on her cell phone, she said her daughter was angry and said, “They never let her do anything and she would rather kill herself.”
• 3:11 p.m. — A Mountain View Elementary employee reported that a sixth-grade student had marijuana and was possibly selling it to other students.
• 3:14 p.m. — A caller on Woods Lane reported that a male and female German Shepherd were running up and down the street tearing up the trash and attacking other dogs.
• 7:57 p.m. — A 15-year-old male was detained at Walgreens for shoplifting a pair of Leather Fire Flicker gloves worth $21.42, an employee reported.
Drunken Solicitation
Thursday, Jan. 28
• 9:25 a.m. — An Española Middle School employee reported that a 13-year-old student was found with a half-ounce of marijuana. The student’s parents were called to the school, logs stated.
• 1:23 p.m. — A caller reported that he was nearly run off the road twice by the driver of a white Nissan Maxima on State Road 74 near P&L Grocery.
• 4:12 p.m. — A man reported that he was approached outside P&L Grocery by a man who said he would perform a sexual favor for $20. The man also reported there were seven or eight other males with the man who solicited him. Responding police officers found the man who reported the complaint to be very drunk, logs stated.
• 5:04 p.m. — A man reported that while at the Big Rock Casino bowling alley, a woman with a long ponytail wearing blue, baggy maternity jeans was on drugs and tried to sell him heroin. He said he was concerned because he thought the woman had an 8-year-old child in her car.
• 7:37 p.m. — An Española man reported that he was being harassed by another man through phone calls and text messages. The man said he believed the suspect lived in Hernandez.
• 8:43 p.m. — A fire alarm sounded at Las Cumbres Learning Center, logs stated. Responding officers saw smoke but discovered it came from a motor seizing in one of the heaters.
High in Pajamas
Friday, Jan. 29
• 3:13 a.m. — A County Road 56A caller reported that he heard shots fired and people screaming.
• 4:11 a.m. — A Calle Redondo caller reported that a man tried to rape her after dropping her friend off at home. She said that she escaped from the man, whom she had never before met.
• 9:35 a.m. — La Joya Street caller said a woman wearing pajamas was snorting lines inside her silver Mazda. He also advised the dispatcher that this woman thinks she is possessed when she is on drugs. He said he was concerned because he knew this woman stole money to buy drugs and had a habit of checking the door handles on cars.
• 10:26 a.m. — A Santo Niño Mobile Home Park caller reported that a man was shooting at a blue car with a rifle. The caller reported that the suspect may have left the trailer park driving a Bronco with a flat tire.
• 11:26 a.m. — A man reported seeing five males on top of the roof of Rio Valle Ford and Body Shop. He told dispatchers no one belonged up there.
• 4:48 p.m. — A woman reported that while driving in Alcalde, she came across a man who was beat up, shaking and bleeding from his nose.
• 10:31 p.m. — A woman reported that a man punched her husband in the Wal-Mart parking lot before running off and jumping in a white truck.
Underwear Defense
Saturday, Jan. 30
• 8:25 a.m. — An Española woman reported that there were some cows on her Prince Lane property that were eating her hay. She told dispatchers she did not know who the cows belonged to.
• 12:28 p.m. — At the Family Dollar Store on Riverside, an employee reported that a woman wearing a purple shirt took something from the store. When confronted by staff, the employee reported that the woman threw pairs of underwear and fled from the store.
• 3:35 p.m. — A caller reported that two men appeared to be shooting firearms on El Llano Road near “the pit.” Responding officers found a car parked in the arroyo with a man inside reading the Bible.
• 3:55 p.m. — On US 84/285, a woman reported that a white donkey was running around the road and she was afraid it would be hit by a car.
Fake Stabbing
Sunday, Jan. 31
• 9:59 a.m. — An Española woman reported that she had shallow breathing after taking Xanax and Clonazepam and drinking brandy. She said she felt sad because her dad had just died.
•1:25 a.m. — A Bond Street caller reported that a drunk teenage couple was fighting and crying outside his house. The female teenager then passed out, the caller reported.
• 5:50 a.m. — An Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo woman reported that some children tried to hotwire her ATV. When she caught them, the woman said they ran off toward an apartment complex.
• 12:07 p.m. — A woman called from Los Angeles, Calif., to report that her residence in Española had been taken over by a squatter. She wanted police officers to tell the occupant to leave, logs state.
• 3:57 p.m. — A Calle del Sol man reported that he had been stabbed three to four times with a steak knife by another man who knocked on his door and asked for a cigarette. When police arrived, the man said he made up the story and self-inflicted the scratches on his chest. He was transported to the hospital for a mental evaluation, logs stated.