Española Police, Ohkay Owingeh Tribal Police, Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies and State Police responded to the following calls:
Soda Assault
Monday, Dec. 14
• 9:21 a.m. — A laptop computer was reported stolen from United Methodist Church. The person who reported the theft told police he suspected an inside job. Police took a report.
• 11:19 a.m. — An unidentified man took some tools from a woman’s house in Ranchitos, she said. When the homeowner confronted the thief and told him to drop everything, he ran into his car and took off.
• 1:59 p.m. — A Blake’s Lotaburger employee reported a drunk man in a tan jacket who was bothering customers.
• 3:15 p.m. — A woman outside Lowe’s Home Improvement said her brother kicked her car, tried to break her windows and then ran inside the store. Police found him walking toward Wal-Mart.
• 6:11 p.m. — A woman yelled at a Center Market customer for hitting her car with a shopping cart, the customer reported. The woman then struck the customer’s teenage daughter in the face, the caller said. The suspect drove off before police arrived.
• 8:53 — A landlord wanted police to help him collect back rent from a tenant who moved out without giving notice. Police advised the man to take the matter to Rio Arriba County Magistrate Court. The landlord said he couldn’t do that because the tenant had never signed a lease.
• 9:01 p.m. — A son hit his mother with a soda, she reported.
• 10:05 p.m. — A man with a scarf wrapped around his face tried to rob the San Pedro Shell gas station, staff said.
Everybody
Going to Jail
Tuesday, Dec. 15
• 5:17 a.m. — A caller said she was suspicious of three men walking around the Park and Ride lot wearing black clothing and carrying white trash bags.
• 8:30 a.m. — A woman calling from Denver, Colo., asked police to check on her parents. She said they are in their 70s, and she hadn’t heard from them in two weeks. Police found no one at their house.
• 12:12 p.m. — A man in a white Dodge truck with retired police plates on the front was stopping vehicles near the Long John Silver’s and telling people not to drive, a caller reported.
• 12:52 p.m. — A woman at the Santa Clara apartments said three women were harassing her in the parking lot, so she had to pull a shovel on them.
• 12:56 p.m. — Everyone at a house near McCurdy School was yelling, “All the people there going to jail,” because they were all drunk, according to a neighbor. The neighbor would not provide more details or describe the house because he no longer wanted police to stop by. Police came nonetheless and detoxed one man.
• 1:28 p.m. — An El Llano man called to report his neighbor is a bad mother because she doesn’t have a car and walks everywhere with her baby.
• 2:53 p.m. — A man on Corlett Road reported a person had just flipped off his daughter.
Fighting Man
Stuck in Fence
Wednesday, Dec. 16
• 10:57 a.m. — A man reported he took in his vehicle for body work, and the shop owner was refusing to give it back.
• 6:04 p.m. — Wal-Mart staff asked police to remove a man threatening employees in the meat department and kicking windows. Police arrested the man and towed his car.
• 1:31 p.m. — A Corlett Road woman’s son got drunk and stole her brother’s U-Haul, she said.
• 3:16 p.m. — A man was reported holding a gun out his car window near Chili’s restaurant.
• 6:21 p.m. — A man at Sacred Heart chapel was talking to himself and appeared to be crying, according to a caller who was in the chapel with the man and wanted him checked out.
• 7:59 p.m. — A woman walked into the Family Dollar in Chimayó and handed the cashier a note instructing her to hand over all the cash in the register, staff reported. The woman did not say a word, and ran off when another clerk approached.
• 8:36 p.m. — Police responded to a call of several men who were fighting near the old Blockbuster and ran off. Officers apprehended one man who got caught in a fence by Los Arcos restaurant.
Mom vs. Girlfriend
Thursday, Dec. 17
• 1:32 a.m. — McDonald’s staff reported an intoxicated male was blocking the drive-thru because he claimed the cashier had not returned his credit card.
• 4:04 p.m. — A man took a caller’s folding chair from behind the Long John Silver’s and was walking toward Allsup’s convenience store.
• 8:05 p.m. — Española Recreation Center employees reported a client had broken another person’s window, started arguing about it and then blamed the dispute on staff.
• 11:34 p.m. — A Milagro Mobile Home Park caller said his girlfriend’s mother showed up drunk at his house and was trying to fight his girlfriend.
Threatening Heater
Friday, Dec. 18
• 2:08 a.m. — A McCurdy Road resident called to report an intruder. Police determined it was just her water heater making crackling noises and advised her to call the gas company.
• 2:16 a.m. — A Taos Lane man reported a woman rammed her car into his house and busted his bedroom window.
• 5:05 p.m. — A man said he was threatened 30 minutes earlier at a gas station. The person making the threat told the caller he “had it coming to him.”
• 9:09 p.m. — A woman, who would not leave her name or address, said it sounded like some man was going to get beat up.
Fans Cheering,
Not Fighting
Saturday, Dec. 19
• 6:12 a.m. — Two drunk teens caught fighting off Fairview Lane had given each other “good size” lacerations to the head, police reported. Both minors were arrested for buying alcohol.
• 12:06 p.m. — A caretaker at the Enchanted Mesa mobile home park said a person she was taking care of stole $61 from her purse.
• 3:07 p.m. — A man covering his head with a black leather jacket was seen walking along La Joya Street.
• 5:02 p.m. — Police were asked to help remove a small, Spanish-speaking male from Chili’s restaurant. The man was gone by the time police arrived.
• 6:59 p.m. — A Wal-Mart customer said a man and a Muslim-looking woman in a red cloak were at the cash register with a 4-year-old child pictured on a missing child poster. The caller urged police to hurry because the couple was getting ready to load their groceries into their car. Police determined the child in question was only 3 years old, while the child in the poster was 6.
• 8;07 p.m. — A Calle Duran resident said he suspected a domestic disturbance because he could hear yelling at his neighbor’s house. Police found the neighbors were just really excited about a sports game and were yelling at the television.
Shoplifter ‘Dressed Kind of Goth’
Sunday, Dec. 20
• 3:04 a.m. — A man reportedly wearing black clothing and carrying a bag as he walked away from the Rent-A-Center became irate when police approached him. He was detoxed.
• 11:17 a.m. — A woman kept returning to the Wal-Mart parking lot to sell bizcochitos, despite repeated attempts from staff to drive her away, they reported.
• 2:42 p.m. — A Wal-Mart customer said she had her tires slashed. The caller said the culprit was likely a woman in a white Ford Bronco, with whom she’d been arguing in the parking lot earlier.
• 4:24 p.m. — Police were told to be on the lookout for a white male “dressed kind of goth,” who had just tried to shoplift from the Family Dollar in Española.
• 8:08 p.m. — A female caller said a group of men in a white Ford Fusion threw eggs at her beige BMW and was now following her around Taco Bell.