Española Police, Ohkay Owingeh Tribal Police, Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies and State Police responded to the following calls:
Would-be Robber Turns Himself In
Monday, June 22
• 1:19 a.m. — A man said he went to Allsup’s to rob them, but didn’t have a gun. He said if officers didn’t go pick him up, he was going to rob the store. Finally he said “have them come get me, I can’t smoke and talk on the phone,” and hung up. He was detoxed.
• 8:59 a.m. — A man made a walk-in report that people distributing phone books stole his puppy. Officers were advised to be on the lookout for the thieves.
• 10:53 a.m. — A Rio Arriba County Road 41 caller said a tenant, upon whom she had served a six-month eviction notice, was refusing to pay rent in the meantime.
• 2:04 p.m. — A caller said some young men outside Rio Drugs pharmacy in Chama were throwing water at passing cars. • 2:15 p.m. — A caller said a woman was walking northbound on Riverside Drive in her underwear. “She was wearing regular shorts,” a responding officer told 911 dispatchers. “Negative on underwear.”
• 5:35 p.m. — An Upper San Pedro caller said her sister came home smelling of marijuana and was arguing with their mother. She said their mother was just released from the hospital and “does not need to put up with this stress.”
• 11:25 p.m. — A woman called from Sundial in Chama asking for a ride to Dulce. She was told not to call 911 for a ride.
Sewer Plant Reeks
Tuesday, June 23
• 2:39 a.m. — A caller said he smelled a very strong scent of decay near Santa Clara Bridge Road. An officer came to the area, noting it was near the Española Sewer Plant. “It does smell really bad here, and the wind is blowing northbound so (the sewer plant) is probably going to be the smell,” the officer told 911 dispatchers.
• 4:07 p.m. — A County Road 273 caller said a woman, who had been staying with him, was threatening him with a rock. She couldn’t be found.
• 4:26 p.m. — The owner of a fireworks stall near Wal-Mart said someone stole a firework. The owner ended up retrieving the firework from where it was thrown over the fence.
• 4:50 p.m. — A Camino Carlos Rey caller said some children were harassing her brother and making racist comments. They couldn’t be found.
• 8:05 p.m. — A Highway 84 caller said some people were knocking down trees and fences and making holes in her land. She said she met with the people who were destroying her property, and they said they didn’t think they needed her permission.
Fisherman Attacked With Rocks
Wednesday, June 24
• 9:56 a.m. — A County Road 52 caller said her neighbor called her at work to tell her someone was at her home. A man driving a green Honda Civic was trying to get in her front door and then the back door. When the neighbor approached the man, he left at a high rate of speed. The caller later discovered things were stolen from her house. Police took a report.
• 7:38 p.m. — An El Llano caller said her intoxicated ex-boyfriend wouldn’t leave the premises. He was given a ride.
• 8:29 p.m. — A County Road 88A caller said his intoxicated aunt was calling his house harassing him.
• 9:26 p.m. — A caller said a man approached him at Little Creel and told him he was fishing on private land and threw rocks at him. The suspect couldn’t be found.
• 9:30 p.m. — A caller said some people in a black Nissan Maxima were driving around Hernandez opening water meter cans, turning off water and sometimes stealing the water meter cans. Police patrolled the area.
• 10:21 p.m. — A County Road 40 caller said her son was involved in a domestic dispute with a woman who stabbed him with a screwdriver. It turned out to be a superficial wound.
Man Armed
With Boat Paddle
Thursday, June 25
• 12:35 a.m. — A Calle del Pajarito caller said she could hear a woman yelling and see a man holding a boat paddle in his hand, which he threw at a neighbor.
• 3:52 a.m. — A caller said a man who appeared “dazed and confused” was walking about half a mile up 31-Mile Road with something metal in his hand. Police found the man, who said he left his car at a lookout point. Police gave him a ride to where he said the car was, while noting he had defecated on himself. The car couldn’t be found, and the man said he would walk home.
• 1:49 p.m. — A Rio Chiquito caller said his uncle, who had been harassing him for the past two years, kept shooting a gun off in the air. He said his uncle planted marijuana in his garden, broke his wagon and was possibly cooking methamphetamine in a garage next to his house. He said his uncle refers to his drugs as “tea,” is paranoid and believes in witches. Officers were advised.
• 3:48 p.m. — A bus driver on Paseo de Oñate said a drunk man was giving him a hard time and refusing to get off the bus.
Drunk Blonde
Gets Ride Home
Friday, June 26
• 7:48 p.m. — A Valley Superette employee said a blonde woman in a silver Saturn was possibly intoxicated and yelling at customers. She was picked up by a relative.
• 7:59 p.m. — A Hamm Parkway caller said she wanted the truck out of the house and hung up. It was logged as a false report.
Sneaky Roommate
Saturday, June 27
• 1:36 p.m. — A caller said a local troublemaker was at Valdez Park starting problems with people. Police spoke to some of his rivals who were at the park, and they said he left awhile before.
• 2:20 p.m. — A Calle Serrano caller said she asked her roommate to leave because she hadn’t paid rent, but she was still wandering around the house. The caller said her roommate drank all of their alcohol and snuck in to do laundry when the caller was in the shower.
• 4:37 p.m. — A North Riverside Drive caller said her son threw a beer at her. A male got on the line and said his mother was drunk, and he did no such thing. A woman could be heard in the background yelling at him to hang up the phone.
• 6:39 p.m. — A Sunset Drive caller requested police pick up a man who was telling her something. 911 dispatchers asked her to be more specific, and she said he was telling her everything. Police gave a drunk man a ride to his aunt’s, noting that when he drinks he gets rowdy.
• 11:19 p.m. — An Anthony’s at the Delta employee said customers were threatening him with violence because he refused to serve them any more alcohol.
Ex Keeps Cell Phone
Sunday, June 28
• 1:03 a.m. — A West Winesap Drive caller said a man took her Alprazolam and wanted to sell it. Police assisted the caller.
• 10:38 p.m. — A Camino Carlos Rey caller said she went out to lunch with her ex-boyfriend and accidentally left her phone in his car. She said he didn’t want to give the phone back and changed his phone number because they broke up.