Police Blotter: Woman, Hair Stylist Nearly Come to Blows

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    Española Police, Ohkay Owingeh Tribal Police, Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies and State Police responded to the following calls:

Woman Dodges Boyfriend

Monday, June 21

    • 4:15 a.m. — A Highway 84 caller said her next door neighbors were always partying and making noise. She told the police to break up the party. She advised the officers to approach her neighbor’s home with their cruiser lights off, or else the people would run.

    • 9:07 a.m. — Española Middle School staff told police an employee received a threatening e-mail.

    • 10:55 a.m. — A North Riverside Drive caller said the new Habitat for Humanity building had been tagged with graffiti.    

    • 2:20 p.m. — A woman wearing green pants and a tank top shirt was bleeding “all over the place” when she walked into the Triple S gas station. The woman said she was thrown out of a vehicle and left about 15 minutes before police arrived.

    • 7 p.m. — A Rio Arriba County Road 1 caller said her boyfriend tried to hit her with a pickup truck.

    • 8:26 p.m. — A Private Drive 1513 caller said two males were throwing rocks at her house.

    • 9:38 p.m. — A woman bought something from Allsup’s gas station with a fake $100 bill, a caller said.    

    • 11:22 p.m. — A Paseo De Oñate caller told police someone broke into her daughter’s house while she was on vacation and stole her televisions.

Death Threat Made in Form of a Question

Tuesday, June 22

    • 12:23 a.m. — Santa Claran Hotel Casino security found a fanny pack that had cocaine and pills inside.

    • 12:42 a.m. — A Rosebud Lane caller said her 19-year-old son was huffing liquid air and going out of control.

    • 2:23 a.m. — Española Police helped a North Riverside Drive caller find her truck, which she said was stolen by her ex-husband.

    • 8:29 a.m. — A man was passed out with a syringe in his hand in a turning lane on North Riverside Drive. People knocked on his window and he woke up. He was taken to the hospital.

    • 2:37 p.m. — A Sterling Avenue caller told police a man was parked near her house, and he kept getting out of the vehicle and going to the trunk.

    • 2:33 p.m. — A State Road 76 caller told police someone broke into her neighbor’s house and then tried selling her the items he had stolen. After speaking with the woman, the officer said the incident happened the previous day, the woman hadn’t seen any of the stolen items and she was intoxicated.

    • 3:54 p.m. — A Calle Chamisal caller said he thought people were after him because someone stole his tape recorder. Dispatchers stated he sounded like he was drunk or was “on something.”

    • 7:57 p.m. — A caller said people were selling what looked like pills in Walmart’s parking lot.

    • 7:58 p.m. — A caller said her neighbor’s dog came into her yard and killed her dog.

    • 8:17 p.m. — A North Riverside Drive caller saw a man crawling on the ground.

    • 9:38 p.m. — A County Road 2 caller said someone asked him if he wanted to die. He was not sure whether the person making the threat was talking to him. Later, he reported hearing a gunshot.

Horse Thief

Wednesday, June 23

    • 12:28 a.m. — A Calle Sandoval caller saw a woman wearing pajama pants, who said she was going to steal horses in the field by North Railroad Avenue. The caller said the woman was trying to get on a horse. Police could not find the woman.

    • 8:49 a.m. — A Highway 84 caller said she saw a horse standing on the side of the road.

    • 9:28 a.m. — An Industrial Park Road caller said someone was trying to use his dead wife’s credit card.

    • 12 p.m. — Walmart staff said someone tried walking out of the store with a $400 radio.

    • 3:20 p.m. — Several South Riverside Drive callers reported seeing people armed with baseball bats and fighting by the San Pedro Shell station.

    • 5:20 p.m. — Two cows were standing on the side of State Road 76 near Holy Family Church.

Unwelcome Bed Guest

Thursday, June 24

    • 12:08 a.m. — A Private Drive 1600 caller said he lost his National Guard hat when he pulled over to the side of the road to yell at some children throwing fireworks.

    • 12:55 a.m. — A North Railroad Avenue caller said a man was sleeping on her bed and she did not know him.

    • 12:14 p.m. — A North Riverside Drive woman said her nephew had two pills in his mouth. She said the boy was pale but breathing fine.

    • 12:35 p.m. — A Private Drive 1033 caller said a man and a woman were picking through trash cans in the area.

    • 4:42 p.m. — Two children were left inside a car at the Shoe Dept, a caller said. The vehicle left by the time police arrived.

    • 8:59 p.m. — A Jackrabbit Trail caller said someone put a dog with a broken leg in front of her home.

    • 9:06 p.m. — Someone in a white Honda Accord pulled out a weapon and fired two shots in the air near Walmart.

Wandering Canine Customer

Friday, June 25

    4:40 a.m. — A Highway 285 caller complained that livestock were in the road. State Police called the cattle inspector to handle the call.

    • 9:03 a.m. — A County Road 85 man said his home was broken into and he was missing tools and firearms.

    • 9:27 a.m. — A German Shepherd was loose in the Walmart parking lot, according to 911 dispatch logs.

    • 10:22 a.m. — Police checked for a rattlesnake under an Ash Loop porch, but could not find it.

    • 11:21 p.m. — A North Riverside Drive caller said she went to get her nails done, and the woman doing her nails became angry when the caller told her that’s not the way she wanted them done. The caller said she wanted to hit the woman.

    • 2:08 p.m. — A woman was caught trying to steal men’s underwear, muscle shirts and Capri pants from Walmart.

    • 5:31 p.m. — Police questioned two Lowdermilk Lane males about fireworks they were throwing. The males said they stole the fireworks. An employee at the fireworks stand said the males paid for the fireworks.

    • 7:13 p.m. — A dog was inside the Highway 84 Family Dollar, and employees could not get it to leave.

Man-Chaser Wearing All Black

Saturday, June 26

    • 1:04 a.m. — A County Road 56 A caller said she could hear people in the hills yelling, and they were carrying flashlights.

    • 4:58 a.m. — A State Road 554 caller said he knew where drugs were being grown, but he wouldn’t give any of his personal information to dispatchers.

    • 12:44 p.m. — A Jonathan Drive caller said a woman dressed in all black was chasing a man around a home.

    • 4:54 p.m. — A Private Drive 1433 caller complained that dogs were spooking his horses.

Creepy Night Sounds

Sunday, June 27

    • 12:20 a.m. — A County Road 58 caller said he could hear footsteps, dogs barking and glass breaking.

    • 1:35 a.m. — A County Road 55 caller told dispatch he had a few beers and thought he broke his collarbone.  He said he had a mean dog in his yard, but he waited for an ambulance by the road.

    • 2:20 p.m. — A Public Safety aide was approached by several people at Walmart, who said someone was looking into cars in the parking lot.

    • 3:01 p.m. — A man was getting beat up by two other men on North Riverside Drive, according to dispatch logs.

    • 5:18 p.m. — A North Riverside Drive caller said a neighborhood Chihuahua bit her.

    • 8:43 p.m. — A State Road 68 caller said two males were driving on the highway and throwing fire crackers out of the window. He was afraid the men would start fires.

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