Española Police officers, Ohkay Owingeh Tribal Police, Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies and State Police responded to the following calls:
Neck Tattoo Tough Guy
Monday, Dec. 20
• 4:58 a.m. — An Ohkay Express Mart caller said someone was firing a paintball gun in the area and worried they would come into town.
• 10:43 a.m. — A caller complained about panhandlers holding signs near Taco Bell. Police stated the panhandlers were not being aggressive.
• 11:12 a.m. — A Highway 285 caller said a woman burned her face on a wood stove. Dispatch could hear a woman screaming in the background.
• 11:58 a.m. — A Del Norte Credit Union caller said he was being harassed by a man with neck tattoos who was carrying a gas can.
• 3:54 p.m. — A North Riverside Drive caller said she saw a pickup truck with a dead mountain lion in the back.
• 6:12 p.m. — A County Road 142 caller said his home was broken into and people stole a television, a welder and several power tools.
• 10:59 p.m. — A La Joya Street caller said a man walked about 20 feet into a field and lay down. Police transported one person to Española Jail for detoxification.
• 11:31 p.m. — A Camino De Quintana woman called screaming that there was a fight involving several people from two separate houses and that they were throwing rocks at cars.
Man Wants to Send Wife Back
Tuesday, Dec. 21
• 12:13 a.m. — A Las Lomas Apartments caller said someone broke the windows to her Ford Mustang and slashed the tires.
• 1:59 a.m. — A State Road 519 caller said a woman was going crazy, throwing “everything,” and trying to kill him.
• 11:03 a.m. — A man saw a Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s cruiser and ran away.
• 2:50 p.m. — A Lucero Center caller said a metal book stand fell on a 3-year-old. The child was not bleeding and had only a few red marks on him.
• 4:18 p.m. — Police were called to a fight behind Lowe’s Supersave. They found a 25-year-old man behind the business injecting himself with drugs.
• 4:40 p.m. — A Wal-Mart caller said people were in the parking lot offering to sell people either marijuana or crack.
• 7:04 p.m. — A Highway 84/285 caller said his grandson was drinking, causing problems and yelling. The man said he gets like that whenever he drinks. The caller said later he thought the grandson went to hide in a car after he called the police.
• 10:35 p.m. — A South Riverside Drive caller said she just got her mother out of jail and her father keeps calling 911.
• 11:52 p.m. — A South Riverside Drive woman called in a domestic dispute, but later said she was just calling because she needed a cigarette.
Neighbor Really Overreacts
Wednesday, Dec. 22
• 12:41 a.m. — A County Road 41 caller said she was looking for her lost dog when her neighbor came outside and threatened to rape her daughter.
• 6:21 a.m. — A Sandy Lane caller said a white Cavalier hit her wall and drove away.
• 12:48 p.m. — A Fairview Sonic caller said a man was going to pull a gun on her and told her he was going to kill her brother. The man said if the woman called the cops he would “blast them.”
• 4:23 p.m. — A Wal-Mart caller said someone stole her purse and jumped over a fence by Wendy’s.
• 4:37 p.m. — A Wal-Mart caller said he was threatened by a man who said he was going to shoot him. The man returned with all of his friends, the caller said. One person was transported to Española Jail for detoxification.
• 4:41 p.m. — A Triple S caller said a door closed on the head of a 1-year-old. Española Police spokesman Stacy Saiz said the child was not seriously injured.
• 5:42 p.m. — An El Guique Road caller said her dogs killed a bobcat. Animal Control officers told her to bury it.
• 10:55 p.m. — A Las Lomas Apartments caller said her upstairs neighbor was stomping his feet and slamming doors and this was a problem because she had a sick child that kept waking up. She said she asked the man to stop but he slammed the door in her face.
• 11:04 p.m. — A State Road 519 caller said her boyfriend was drunk and spitting in her face.
Molotov Newbie
Thursday, Dec. 23
• 7:51 a.m. — A Calle Senaida caller said someone threw a bottle of gasoline at her house that had a white sock stuffed inside it. The sock was not lit.
• 11:17 a.m. — A North Riverside Drive caller said a girl was selling a paper with no one watching her and she almost fell down. Police checked the area and saw the girl’s mother standing with her. Police told the mother to keep the child off the median.
• 8:38 p.m. — A County Road 142 caller said her boyfriend got drunk, broke her television and grabbed her by the neck and threatened to snap it.
Grumpy Tamale Hustler
Friday, Dec. 24
• 12:21 p.m. — A County Road 142 man who was intoxicated said he was beaten up and bleeding from the head. He said he thought someone hit him with a baseball bat, but he wasn’t sure.
• 8:38 a.m. — A Private Drive 1529 caller said her husband had been doing cocaine for several days and was breathing, but not talking or responding to anyone. The man was transported to a hospital by an ambulance but police said later he did not overdose.
• 9:13 a.m. — A Calle del Sol caller said she broke up with her boyfriend the day before and he was calling her saying he would kill her.
• 10:09 a.m. — A State Road 511 caller said someone was in the Navajo Marina and shooting ducks with a shotgun.
• 1 a.m. — A Calle Quintana caller said someone broke into her house through the window and stole her television. She said there were blood stains by the window.
• 8:17 p.m. — A Walgreens caller said some people in front of the store tried to sell her tamales and started cursing her when she refused.
And to All a Good Drunken Fist-Fight
Saturday, Dec. 25
• 12:07 a.m. — A Private Drive 1069 caller said his dog was staring at the road and he was worried that someone was about to “mess with” him or his dog.
• 1:16 a.m. — Emergency dispatch took a call about a domestic dispute and could hear a woman in the background yelling that the State Road 76 caller would not give her children back.
• 1:44 a.m. — A North Yucca Street caller said a drunk man was throwing things outside of her house and kicked her earlier that night.
• 10 a.m. — A Private Drive 1037A caller asked for an ambulance because he had been drinking for 10 days and felt like he was dying.
• 7:36 p.m. — A man passed out at the Ohkay Casino, fell and hit his head.
• 10:34 p.m. — A Calle Chamisal caller complained of a loud party in which people were screaming and fighting. Police encountered an extremely drunk man and told him to go to bed.
• 11:21 p.m. — A Calle Chamisal caller said two men, one of whom was armed with a knife, tried to break into her apartment. She said one of the men was punched in the face. Police said this was a fight between two men and neither mentioned a knife. They did note that one man’s face was “pretty busted up.”
OD Handled Like a Champ
Sunday, Dec. 26
• 1:14 p.m. — A Wal-Mart caller said a man was trespassing in the store. The caller said the man pulled out a knife and ran away toward Wendy’s. The man was carrying a Blu-ray player with him.
• 8:13 p.m. — A County Road 86 caller said a man was overdosing. She said they gave him mouth-to-mouth and the man started breathing again, but shallowly. The male vomited, and color returned to his face and he stood up and started walking around. They did not know what he overdosed on.
• 9:51 p.m. — A Sacred Heart Church caller said there were children in front of the church trying to light something on fire.
• 10:06 p.m. — A Santa Clara 602 caller said a woman was bitten by something and pain was shooting up her arm.
• 10:15 p.m. — An Allsup’s caller said a man was trying to sell them a wrench they thought was stolen.