Española Police, Ohkay Owingeh Tribal Police, Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies and State Police responded to the following calls:
Bad Moon On the Drive
Monday, Sept. 14
• 9:39 a.m. — An Española Hospital employee said some people stole things from a vendor, who was selling scrubs to the nurses.
• 6:02 p.m. — A Fairview Post Office employee said two men who were loitering in front of the building were making him very nervous.
• 7:34 p.m. — A caller said a man driving a red van on Fairview Lane was mooning people as he was driving. “Negative contact with vehicle mooning people,” a responding officer recorded in 911 dispatch logs.
• 7:44 p.m. — A caller said his car was burglarized while it was parked at Ohkay Casino and a checkbook, pocketknife and two fax machines were stolen from the trunk. Police found no signs of forced entry into the car.
• 8:05 p.m. — A Private Drive 1629 caller said someone called asking to speak to his wife, and after he refused to allow him to talk to her, the suspect became very upset and threatened to assault his wife and kill him.
Stop Making That Face
Tuesday, Sept. 15
• 11:35 a.m. — A Riverside Drive caller said a man who had been working for him stole a saw and had been stealing from him for quite some time. Police took a report for larceny.
• 3:55 p.m. — A caller said he was upset with the face a man made at him as they passed each other on Highway 84.
• 10:05 a.m. — An Española Transit Mix caller said the previous night, someone stole some steel scraps.
Text-Impaired Walker
Wednesday, Sept. 16
• 12:21 p.m. — A Las Lomas Apartments caller said she found a threatening note on her car because she parked too close to another car. She said the note read, “If you scratch my car I will burn your car.” She said she just moved to the apartment complex and didn’t know anyone in the area, so she had no idea who wrote the note.
• 3:39 p.m. — A caller said as she was driving in Sombrillo a truck made a U-turn in front of her, nearly causing her to wreck. She said the truck went into the foothills, came back, followed her a little bit, then returned to the foothills. She said she wanted the truck’s occupants arrested. The truck couldn’t be found by police.
• 4:31 p.m. — A caller said some men on Riverside Drive were asking people for money. “We have an eye on them … they are behaving now,” officers reported.
• 5:58 — A caller said a man fell on the side of State Road 68. The man was determined to be very drunk, but he refused medical attention and left on foot.
• 6:45 p.m. — A caller said she almost hit a stumbling drunk woman walking on Riverside Drive. The woman turned out to be sober, but was sending text messages, and said she fell a couple of times.
• 10:15 p.m. — A Hamm Parkway caller said her drunk aunt was destroying all the stuff in the garage.
• 11:23 p.m. — A Club Tropicana employee said a man who appeared to be high was swaying around, causing problems and refusing to leave.
Indian Impersonator
Thursday, Sept. 17
• 11:24 a.m. — A Calle Celestino caller said a man and woman in a station wagon parked at the end of the road kept yelling, whistling and honking the horn. He wanted an officer to shut them up. Police advised the pair to leave the area.
• 1:03 p.m. — A Rio Arriba County Road 41 caller said his neighbor kept blocking the roadway with a cable. Police advised him it was a civil matter.
• 7:40 p.m. — A State Road 580 caller said a man was being disorderly, yelling and pretending to be an Indian. Police couldn’t find him.
Knife-Wielding Speeder
Friday, Sept. 18
• 10:43 a.m. — A Water Store employee said she fired an employee for shoplifting from the store, and she heard the woman was coming by for her last check, which the shop intended to keep to pay for the items she stole. Police agreed to assist the store if the fired employee showed up.
• 12:36 p.m. — A Private Drive 1653 caller said a man was screaming that his wife threw him out of the car. He couldn’t be found.
• 12:44 p.m. — An El Llano caller said people in a pickup truck drove into his yard, went to the barn and started to throw stuff in the back of a truck until they saw him on the phone. They couldn’t be found.
• 2:24 p.m. — Law enforcement officers from Albuquerque to Taos were advised to be on the lookout for a man headed to a retreat in Taos who had a warrant for driving infractions.
• 7:45 p.m. — A male caller said he was pushing his child in a stroller on Old Hospital Road when his uncle, who was driving a Chevy Cavalier, came speeding up the road, then showed him a knife when the caller told him to slow down.
Dog Suspected Of Fowl Play
Saturday, Sept. 19
• 8:33 a.m. — A Private Drive 1130 caller said his neighbor’s dog killed two of his ducks. Dispatchers contacted animal control.
• 9:33 a.m. — A Dakota Lane caller said a man was causing a disturbance and was going to burn the house down.
• 6:21 p.m. — A caller asked whether anyone was looking for a man hiding near Alcalde Elementary. He said the man was wearing camouflage and hiding in the bushes.
• 8:58 p.m. — A County Road 1 caller said his neighbor saw someone break into his house 15 minutes ago, and added he was going to shoot the people who keep doing this to him. He said he didn’t call right away because he was looking for his shotgun shells. Dispatchers advised him not to be wielding a gun when officers arrived at his house to take a report.
• 11:20 p.m. — A Yucca Lane caller reported his neighbors were creating a noise disturbance. “They got a little mouthy, but they will turn it down,” the responding officer reported.
Baby’s Daddy On the Rampage
Sunday, Sept. 20
• 12:45 a.m. — An Allsup’s convenience store employee said a man stole two bags of beef jerky by placing them in his pants. Española Police handed the suspect over to Santa Clara Tribal Police.
• 3:27 p.m. — A caller said someone was trying to steal bleachers in Ohkay Owingeh. Police determined the people were returning the bleachers, which they used for a mud bogging event at the Ohkay Casino.
• 7:11 p.m. — A Third Street caller said her brother came home drunk and messed up her Chrysler New Yorker.
• 7:12 p.m. — A caller said she did a child exchange with her ex-boyfriend at a trailer park near Walgreens, and he was now chasing her and trying to get into her vehicle. Police took a report for violation of a restraining order.
• 7:19 p.m. — A County Road 131 caller said her sister’s baby’s father was outside her house harassing her family and battering her boyfriend. No report was taken.