Española Police, Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies, Ohkay Owingeh Tribal Police and State Police responded to the following calls:
Begging, Not Drug Abusing
Monday, Feb. 1
• 7:41 a.m. — A caller reported four to five horses were trotting down Highway 64/84. He was afraid they would be hit by oncoming cars.
• 8:16 a.m. — A woman on La Loma Lane reported that two male elementary schools students were ditching school and hiding behind her father’s house.
• 12:01 p.m. — A youth in a camouflage sweater was reportedly painting graffiti at Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park. Police made contact with the youth, who was not tagging anything, but had been suspended from school and failed to inform his parents, 911 logs state.
• 1:20 p.m. — Two men were doing drugs in a carport at Blake’s Lotaburger on Riverside Drive, a caller reported. The men told police they did not have any drugs; they were just panhandling to get something to eat, logs state.
Dog Loses Leg
in Fight
Tuesday, Feb. 2
• 1:04 a.m. — Two males came into Española Hospital’s emergency room with broken noses and lacerations, logs state. The two men said they were attacked by five other men who jumped out of a black Lexus on Riverside Drive, logs state.
• 12:21 p.m. — An Alcalde woman reported that several drunk neighbors were screaming and fighting with Alcalde Elementary staff. The woman reported that a man who lived behind the school began fighting with the school’s janitor after saying, “something about a glock.”
• 1:21 p.m. — A man reported that he was “cheap shotted” by a car and thrown down onto the parking lot outside the Shanghai Chinese Restaurant on Riverside Drive. Police contacted the man who was eating inside the restaurant and said he did not wish to file a report, logs state.
• 5:42 p.m. — A Highway 285 female caller reported that two dogs got into a fight and one dog, “got his leg chewed off.”
• 9:56 p.m. — A Santo Niño Mobile Home Park resident reported that two shots were fired in the trailer park, and it was, “getting pretty scary out there.”
Sixth-Graders Caught Drinking
Wednesday, Feb. 3
• 9:09 a.m. — An employee of a used car lot on Paseo de Oñate reported that someone broke into three cars, stealing stereos and tires.
• 9:55 a.m. — A caller reported that three sixth-grade girls were drinking alcohol miniatures in Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park. Police made contact with the girls and called their parents to the scene, logs state.
• 11:07 a.m. — A Rio Arriba County Road 41 caller reported that her daughter was being harassed by her boyfriend. The woman said the boyfriend pulled a gun on her daughter.
• 12:23 p.m. — A caller reported that 20 youths jumped one young male at McDonald’s. A second caller said that it appeared no one was hurt. Police spoke to the management and remaining youths but none wished to file a report, logs state.
Bandidos Spotted
Thursday, Feb. 4
• 1:11 a.m. — An Española caller reported that a man in a black, lifted Chevrolet was revving his vehicle and doing doughnuts in the middle of Paseo de Paulina.
• 12:58 p.m. — A caller reported that a home on Highway 285 near Ojo Caliente was fully engulfed in flames. Two fire trucks from the Ojo Caliente Volunteer Fire Department, were dispatched to the scene, logs state.
• 4:17 p.m. — A Hunter Street caller said “the banditos” were behind her house starting trouble. The woman did not wish to give her name, logs state. (see correction below)
• 4:26 p.m. — A County Road 56a caller said a 7-year-old boy had shot her daughter with a BB gun. During the call, another parent and three other boys told the caller it was some other child that shot her daughter, logs state.
• 5:30 p.m. — A woman called 911 very worried that she and her husband had accidentally given their 7-month-old daughter two doses of Mortin to treat a fever. Paramedics arrived on scene and found the baby with a healthy temperature of 98.5 degrees, logs state.
• 6:21 p.m. — A woman reported that two of her ex-roommates broke into her house while her 12-year-old nieces were home alone. The woman said the pair made her nieces sit on the couch while they ransacked the house.
Animal Farm Reprise
Friday, Feb. 5
• 7:15 a.m. — A Walgreens employee reported that the front window of the store had been smashed. Surveillance tapes showed a man wearing a white jacket and blue jeans smashing the window at around 1:30 a.m., logs state.
• 1:40 p.m. — A caller reported that a drunk man was panhandling in front of Subway and “saying nasty things to the women.”
• 2:58 p.m. — An Abiquiú Elementary employee reported that several angry parents were at the school upset that their children were suspended. The employee said one mother, “wanted to take her outside.”
• 4:01 p.m. — A Middle San Pedro Road caller reported that several pit bulls were attacking a pig outside an adobe house.
Pair Trounced
Saturday. Feb. 6
• 8:04 a.m. — A man reported he and a woman were attacked by their neighbors on Coronado Avenue and were bleeding from the nose and face. Both the man and woman were uncooperative with providing other details of the attack, logs state.
• 8:26 a.m. — An Hoy Recovery Program caller requested that police pick up an intoxicated man.
• 11:27 a.m. — A caller reported that a man and woman in their 40s had been attacked on Coronado Avenue. The man had been stabbed, and the woman had been kicked in the head and ribs, logs state.
• 7 p.m. — A caller reported that a man with an unknown type of gun was chasing a naked woman next to the Chevron in Alcalde.
Cat Hung
Sunday, Feb. 7
• 1:58 a.m. — A caller reported that a nearby residence on Ash Loop was having a loud party. When officers approached the house, the residents turned the lights and music off, logs state.
• 2:50 a.m. — A man called 911 to report that another man broke into his house through the back windows. When police arrived on the scene, it turned out it was actually a woman who broke in and the male homeowner told police he did not want to file a report because the woman often stayed there, logs stated.
• 4:53 a.m. — A woman reported that her son’s father kicked down her door and was battering her sister and herself. Police arrested the man at the women’s residence, logs state.
• 11:26 a.m. — A Tierra Amarilla man reported that he cut four of his left fingers on a table saw and the blood was oozing very badly.
• 1:44 p.m. — A woman reported there was a black cat with rope tied around its neck outside the Ohkay Casino. The woman said this was cruelty to animals and wanted Animal Control to investigate.
This story required a correction: The correction is related to a 911 called made Feb. 4 at 4:17 p.m. in which a Hunter Street caller claimed “the banditos” were starting trouble behind her house.
Eddie Garcia said he was the subject of that call and that he is not a “bandito” but instead a member of the Bandidos motorcycle club. Garcia, who had a business card to prove his membership, also said his neighbor called police after he told her to keep her family out of his yard not because he was causing any trouble.