Española Police officers, Ohkay Owingeh Tribal Police, Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies and State Police responded to the following calls:
Shirt Drought Strikes
Monday, June 13
• 1:35 a.m. — A caller said a man who was covered in tattoos and wearing boxer shorts was carrying a gun near the Española Valley High School.
• 5:59 a.m. — A Martinez Lane and South McCurdy Road caller said a teenage boy was threatening to kill his father with a knife. Dispatchers said people were yelling at each other in Spanish. The caller said she thought one of the men was on narcotics. A man ran away toward La Joya Street.
• 7:01 a.m. — A County Road 42 caller said a man was disrespecting him. The caller said a man was asking him to shake his hand and tell him the truth. One of the men was not wearing a shirt.
• 1:07 p.m. — A State Road 76 caller said a man in a white car stopped to talk to a man wearing a white T-shirt and they started arguing. The man ran east and the man in the car started chasing him.
• 1:56 p.m. — A Travelers Motel caller said he was in a room that was destroyed and blood was all over the room. The caller said there was a fight at about 4 a.m. the night before and no police were called. He just had the people involved in the incident leave.
Tragic Mushrooms
Tuesday, June 14
• 4:06 a.m. — A County Road 105 caller said a man was shaking, sweating and attempting to throw up. The caller told dispatchers something about three grams of mushrooms and said the man was pale and his eyes were “very large.”
• 5:31 p.m. — A County Road 101 caller said she heard shots fired in the area. The caller said someone just beat up her son outside the home. The man was covered in blood and was bleeding from his face. The caller said he was possibly hit with a board. She later added that people pepper-sprayed the man. She said the suspects were trying to get water from the home when they started to attack the man.
• 8:16 p.m. — A State Road 76 woman called 911 and dispatchers could hear fighting on the line. A man was yelling at a woman, telling her to be quiet and the cops were on the way. The man then got on the phone and said nothing was going on.
Non-Interventionist Parenting
Wednesday, June 15
• 12:05 a.m.— A Camino De Quintana caller said he came home to his father’s house and his girlfriend had “all kinds” of people there. He added that she tried to hit him.
• 1:43 p.m. — A County Road 87 caller said her ex-tenant was evicted but was back at the residence. Deputies responding to the call reported two young children had no clothes and one of them was bleeding from the leg. They called the state Children, Youth and Families Department for help.
• 5:33 p.m. — A North Riverside Drive Family Dollar caller said three small children were left in a green van parked in the lot and the windows were rolled up. Police could not find the van.
• 6:31 p.m. — A Jemez View Street caller said a woman was drunk, yelling at someone and throwing things around her house. The caller said she was known to carry knives and to hurt herself. Police went to the home and said the family was making dinner and there were no problems.
Use Found for Pay Phone
Thursday, June 16
• 12:15 a.m. — A South Grove Street caller said a man was hitting her. The caller started crying and the line went dead.
• 8:41 a.m. — A Camino De Quintana caller said a 3-year-old child was walking up and down the street in pajamas.
• 1:05 p.m. — A South Orchard Lane caller said a dog was chasing children in the neighborhood.
• 4:39 p.m. — A Wal-Mart caller said a man was trespassing in the store and stole a lot of meat.
• 6:18 p.m. — A San Pedro Shell gas station caller said a man wearing a hospital bracelet was leaning against a pay phone with an IV in his arm.
• 7:59 p.m. — A County Road 41 caller said four men who looked like bikers were fighting. Deputies asked for an ambulance, stating one man was bleeding from the eye. One man was the victim of an assault and another man was a victim of a dog bite.
Horses Are Jerks
Friday, June 17
• 1 a.m. — A Big Rock Casino caller said a man at the bar did not want to pay his tab. Española Police cited the man for falsely obtaining services.
• 2:54 a.m. — A County Road 50 caller said she was afraid for her brother, who was drinking, because her husband wants to kill him.
• 3:17 a.m. — A Big Rock Casino caller said a woman was in the security office and “getting physical” with security. The woman was “dry stung” with a stun gun on her leg.
• 5:48 p.m. — A County Road 324 caller at the Tierra Amarilla clinic said a 63-year-old man was stepped on by a horse and the top of his finger was cut off. The caller said the top of the man’s finger was found and the man would be taking it with him.
Families Go Clubbing
Saturday, June 18
• 4:50 a.m. — A San Pedro Sonic caller said the business was broken into, the phone wire was cut, wire was ripped out and the safe was stolen.
• 7:14 a.m. — A Private Drive 1005 caller said he was at a ditch getting his horses and his brother came up to him and struck him with a board. The caller said his wife was driving him to the hospital.
• 11:24 a.m. — A Walnut Drive caller said her father was high on drugs, punched her in the face and was destroying the house.
• 1:07 p.m. — A North Riverside Drive Family Dollar caller said an irate woman was angry in a dispute about gift bags. The caller said she tried cutting in line at the checkout, then got some items from behind the register and tried to run out of the store.
• 3:02 p.m. — A Rio Del Oso Street caller said her husband, who was drinking in a vehicle, was drunk and tried to run her off the road. She added that she got into a fight with the man’s family and someone punched her in the stomach.
12-Gauge Toenail Clipper
Sunday, June 19
• 11:59 a.m. — A County Road 85 caller said a man had a severe headache. The man had a bullet in his head from an accident he had when he was 15 years old.
• 12:36 p.m. — A Private Drive 1405A caller said her neighbor shot himself in the foot with a 12-gauge shotgun with buckshot. The man was moving the shotgun from one room to another when it fired. The man was transported to the emergency room.
• 7:14 p.m. — A Walgreens caller said a drunk woman was inside at the photo center crying. Police confirmed there was a warrant out for her arrest. The woman had a gash on her forehead, but tried to jump out of the ambulance. An officer later reported she was trying to kick out his window.
• 7:16 p.m. — A Lowe’s SuperSave caller said a man was covered in blood and was walking into the store. The man said he wasn’t beaten up. He said he fell.
• 10:35 p.m. — A woman said there was a fight between two men on Thunder Road. She said her boyfriend beat up her brother, who was out cold.