Española Police officers, Ohkay Owingeh Tribal Police, Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies and State Police responded to the following calls:
SUN Protects Its Turf
Monday, April 11
• 10:40 a.m. — A McCurdy School caller said a male student was forwarding and showing a nude picture of a female student from the school.
• 10:41 a.m. — A Rio Grande SUN caller said a wall to the business was tagged with graffiti the night before. Police have surveillance camera footage of three people tagging the building.
• 2:59 p.m. — A Coronado Avenue caller said a man wearing a plaid jacket took her purse and ran off.
• 5:11 p.m. — A Calle De Pajarito caller said there was a man lying on the curb who was passed out by a cattle guard.
• 7:09 p.m. — A Santa Claran Hotel and Casino caller said there was an extremely intoxicated woman in the security office, who was calling for a ride home but no one wanted to come pick her up.
• 8:25 p.m. — An Animal Control officer went to the Santa Clara Apartments on a call about a Chihuahua locked in a car by itself for 1.5 hours. The dog’s owner said the windows were cracked and the dog had water. The officer said he would take the dog if he saw that again.
• 9:15 p.m. — An East Don Filogonio caller said people were on his street working on a broken water pipe. He complained that they had “bad attitudes” and were driving recklessly.
Wet Bandits
Tuesday, April 12
• 12:43 a.m. — A Wal-Mart caller said she needed a ride to Santa Fe but everyone she called to help her laughed and hung up.
• 3:02 a.m. — A County Road 59A caller said someone stole her wallet with $5,400 inside. The woman did not want to leave her name.
• 7:38 a.m. — A Motel 6 caller said there was a drunk woman inside a room who refused to leave. The caller asked for help getting her to leave.
• 8:52 a.m. — A Calle Espinoza caller said she was driving up State Road 76 and someone threw a rock at her vehicle, which broke her windshield.
• 9:05 a.m. — A State Road 76 caller said she found a hose hooked up to her outside water faucet. The caller said her neighbors were stealing water. The caller did not want to show her ID to police because she said the picture was bad. The officer said the two neighbors worked out an agreement in which the neighbor can take water if they ask for permission first.
• 10:16 a.m. — A different caller said she was driving a bus on State Road 76 and someone broke her windshield.
Drunk Evac Plan
Wednesday, April 13
• 10:16 a.m. — A Santa Clara Drive caller said a man was going into people’s driveways and looking in people’s cars. Police said they saw someone hiding behind a tree. Dispatchers said someone was taken to Española Hospital.
• 12:54 p.m. — A State Road 74 caller said two suspicious people in a white car were taking things out of a house.
• 3 p.m. — A Shadowood Lane caller said six drunk people were inside an apartment being noisy and yelling. The caller said the people would run out the back of the residence if they saw police. Police said everything was fine at the apartment.
• 7:20 p.m. — A North Riverside Drive caller said a woman ran across the street to Burger King and she was being chased by a man who punched her in the face. The woman said she was OK and she wasn’t attacked.
• 7:23 p.m. — A Los Quintanas Road caller said she thought her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend broke into her house.
Bagful of Gross
Thursday, April 14
• 12:08 a.m. — A Calle Don Pedro caller reported a prowler. She said she could hear footsteps on her porch.
• 3:16 a.m. — A Calle De Pajarito caller said she heard a car speed off and realized someone tried to pry off the window to the living room.
• 10:34 a.m. — A County Road 41 caller said her neighbor had been harassing her for a few days. The caller said her neighbor left a bag of dirty diapers on her porch.
• 12:17 p.m. — A caller in front of the County complex in Española reported a woman who was kicking a car that had another woman inside.
• 3:20 p.m. — A Holy Cross Church caller said there were youths fighting in the parking lot.
• 7:25 p.m. — An officer on Hunter Street reported seeing graffiti on the side of a building that said “WSL 13 Leche.”
• 9:22 p.m. — A Santa Claran Hotel and Casino caller said he almost got into a fight with someone who threatened to kill him and burn down his house in Chamita.
Satan Financial
Friday, April 15
• 2:38 a.m. — An Allsup’s caller said two men in a gold Pontiac Grand Prix pulled a gun on a man at the gas station. The caller said the men in the car took money from the man. Police could not find the vehicle.
• 8:48 a.m. — A South Riverside Drive caller said his nephew was acting careless the day before and pulled a knife on the caller’s little girl.
• 9:16 a.m. — A Calle Duran caller said her neighbor’s cat was going to the bathroom in her yard.
• 1:56 p.m. — A Long John Silver’s caller said someone stole money and medication from her purse.
• 2:26 p.m. — A South McCurdy Road caller said there was someone in a gray Jeep throwing trash along the road.
• 4:47 p.m. — A Santa Claran Casino and Hotel caller said someone inside a black Dodge Caliber was pulling up to her vehicle and flipping her off.
• 5:21 p.m. — A Sun Loans caller reported a man who was drinking in front of the business and calling for the devil.
• 6:05 p.m. — A Highway 84/285 caller said her father cut his fingers with a chain saw. The caller was driving the man directly to the hospital.
Whiskey Custody Dispute
Saturday, April 16
• 1:26 a.m. — A 911 dispatcher got a call from a Private Drive 1520 woman who was “screaming about her face.” The caller said someone was hit.
• 2:14 a.m. — A McDonald’s caller said three or four children were running in between the cars in the driveway.
• 1:35 p.m. — A Santa Cruz Country Store caller complained about someone selling pills in front of the store.
• 5:35 p.m. — A Fairview Trailer Court caller said a small child wearing yellow clothes and cowboy boots was standing in the yard next door screaming.
• 8:32 p.m. — Española Police told other police agencies to be on the lookout for a van which was last seen at the San Pedro Shell station. A caller said a woman was forced into the van. Police learned the women were fighting over a bottle of whiskey and a child was in the vehicle.
• 11:10 p.m. — A Las Lomas Apartments caller reported some domestic violence, which was actually basketball players roughhousing with one another.
Mom Invited Him
Sunday, April 17
• 1:15 a.m. — A Calle Vigil caller said a woman who lived with him broke his television and threw his phone at him. The man said the woman was in another room of the house pretending to be asleep.
• 9:15 a.m. — A State Road 74 caller said someone stole five of his tire rims. Dispatchers could hear the caller asking someone else what happened to his rims.
• 11:49 a.m. — A North Riverside Drive caller said she was hit in the face by her little brother who was also abusing their 84-year-old mother.
• 3:16 p.m. — A Fairview Lane caller said his mother invited him over for lunch, got drunk, then started arguing with him.
• 3:35 p.m. — A 31 Mile Road caller found some suspicious skeletons with the heads, hands and feet removed. The caller later said these belonged to animals.
• 4:18 p.m. — A San Pedro Shell station caller said a man with two children with him was doing drugs in the bathroom.