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Gallup City Police Officers and detectives investigate what they believe was an alcohol related death at 1013 Wilson Avenue in north Gallup, N.M., Sunday, March 2, 2003. Photo by Douglas Tesner/Independent |
Tuesday — Contents — 2nd death on
Wilson Ave. Child abandonment case is investigated ‘Drunk Town USA’ alive, and not well, say latest statistics Late Senator
Howes Suspected murderer of Navajo brothers gives up Renown Boy
choir to perform |
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2nd death on Wilson Ave. taps house
as nuisance GALLUP — Police are investigating the death of a Yah-Ta-Hey man Sunday night at a friend’s house in Gallup. Gallup Police Officer Margaret DeLaO-Espinoza was sent at 8:22 p.m. to 1013 W. Wilson Ave. to check out the situation of an intoxicated man who wasn’t moving, according to a police report. Espinoza arrived and met with Protective Custody Officer Joe Garcia, who told her he had called an ambulance but believed the man, later identified as Delbert John, 47, of Yah-Ta-Hey, was dead. John was sitting in a chair when officers arrived. Med Star Ambulance personnel arrived and cut John’s
shirt to attach medical devices but later told Espinoza that he
was dead. Mayes said he last saw John walking around the home
around 7:55 p.m. He told John to go to the hospital, but the man
refused. Haudley said John had been drinking alcohol, but
he didn’t know how much he had consumed, according to the
report. Another person at the home, Jonathan Barney, 51, of the
600 block of West Morgan Avenue, said he saw John coughing a lot
and saw him spit into a bottle he had beside the chair. Officers found a couple of empty 40-ounce beer bottles
near where John had been sitting. Ambulance staff took John’s
body to Rollie Mortuary, according to the report. This was the second dead body within 60 days was
found in the reputed “flop house” that Gallup police
said they would like to close. The body of Delbert John will be sent to the Office of the Medical Investigator in Albuquerque for an autopsy. The call of a 10-7, “unattended death,”
is all too familiar at this address. According to White, this
is the second time within 30 days a dead body has been discovered
at the residence. “A lot of known alcoholics and street people come to this residence to sleep,” White said. “We’re (the Gallup Police Department) going to the City Attorney, Lynn Isaacson, to see if we can declare this residence a public nuisance” to have it closed. Joe Kolb contributed to this report. |Top |
Child abandonment case is investigated Andrea Egger GALLUP — McKinley County Sheriff’s Department investigators are checking into a child abandonment case involving a Gallup woman. Deputies met with Kenneth Carabajal, 25, of Ford Drive
in Gallup at 4:30 p.m. Saturday. Carabajal reported that his former
brother-in-law reported to him that Carabajal’s ex-wife dropped
off their small daughter at the brother-in-law’s home in Yah-Ta-Hey
around 10 a.m. and said she’d return “in a few minutes”
to pick up the girl, but she hadn’t returned yet, according to
a sheriff’s report. The grandmother told deputies she last saw her former
daughter-in-law on Friday, and she appeared intoxicated, at the Shell
station at Zecca Plaza, according to the report. A deputy told Carabajal to file for custody of the girl
if he believed her mother was drinking alcohol in the presence of
their child. The grandmother said she would keep the girl with her
until the mother returned for her, and then she planned to contact
Social Services. Charges of misdemeanor child abandonment are pending against the mother. | Top |
‘Drunk Town USA’ alive, and not well, say latest statistics Joe Kolb There’s little doubt that the winning candidate
will have the continued burden of dispelling the label coined by former
mayor Ed Muñoz “Drunk Town U.S.A.” Despite the national embarrassment this caused, Muñoz
provided a profound wakeup call which, some would argue, is on snooze
control. All of the candidates described economic development
and how to increase revenues for the city. At the center of the city’s
revenue generation are the first days of each month. For many people
in the Gallup-McKinley County area, the first of the month represents
the anticipated receipt of social security and/or general assistance,
as well as employment checks, which are used to purchase groceries
and pay bills for the month. On the other hand there are those who
take advantage of their monthly check to hurt themselves, their families,
and this community’s image. According to Brenda Graham, Shift Supervisor for McKinley
County Metro Dispatch, there were 84 calls dispatched for intoxicated
people between Saturday and Monday. She said calls to pick up intoxicated
people were in the range of 900 for the month of February. “Usually the first of the month is when we’re
the busiest,” said Graham. Among the calls dispatched on Monday
were a bloodied intoxicated man behind H & R Block off of U.S.Hwy.
666 and a group of five people who were escorted into the protective
custody van in the Sonic parking lot on East Historic Route 66. Sunday
evening there was a man found dead at 1013 W. Wilson Ave., with alcohol
being a suspected contributing factor. “Today we have seen no snow or rain with mild temperaturem
so for the folks who drink and hang out, the weather is in their favor,”
said Lt. John Allen of the Gallup Police Department. After reviewing a report of firefighters caring for
two men intoxicated with “ocean water,” a mixture of hairspray
and water, behind Corley Dodge on U.S. Hwy.666, Robert Soto, Shift
Commander of the Gallup Fire Department said, “we’re the
busiest on the weekend when people come to town to shop, now it’s
picking up.” A supervisor at the Na’nizhoozhi Center, who declined
to be identified, said they had between 30-40 admissions per day since
the weekend. He didn’t appear to be alarmed by this number however,
but did say as the weather becomes warmer, they do expect an increase
in admissions. “The first of each month is when people receive
their check so this is when E.M.S receives a large amount of “down
and out” calls,” said an Emergency Medical Technician who
declined to be identified. “These use up valuable resources and
taxpayers’ money,” he said. For the incoming mayor this is the balancing act he will have to maintain. The city of Gallup must encourage shopping at local stores but deal with the consequences of the products many of the consumers are purchasing. | Top |
Late Senator Howes honored in Santa Fe Kristen Davenport SANTA FE — Not long ago, Gloria Howes was a member of this Senate. Monday, the New Mexico Senate took a half-hour to honor Howes’ memory. The Senate passes a memorial resolution Monday in memory of Howes, who representated the Gallup-McKinley County areas at the state legislature. Howes died in December after falling at her home. Plenty of Senators became choked up when remembering the former senator. Perhaps the two things most remembered about Gloria Howes wre her contagious laughter and her genuine care for children. Even John Ponto, a senator from Tohatchi, seemed to have a hard time talking about his former employee without emotion. Pinto gave Howes her first job at the Roundhous in Santa Fe nearly 20 years ago — as his secretary... | Top |
Suspected murderer of Navajo brothers gives up Jim Maniaci WINDOW ROCK — The suspect in a late February double slaying surrendered to county authorities in Albuquerque on Sunday for unrelated charges, tribal police report. Anthony Dallas, 22, of Pueblo Pintado Chapter, turned
himself into the Bernailillo County Sheriff’s Office around noon
sunday after his family drove him to Albuquerque from Phoenix... | Top | Renowned Boychoir to perform in Gallup Staff Report GALLUP — The American Boychoir, which sang at Carnegie Hall
with the San Francisco Symphony last fall and will sing with the
Boston Symphony Orchestra this spring, will preform in Gallup at
7:30 p.m. on Thursday at the First United Methodist Church, 1800
Red Rock Drive. Tickets will be sold at the door for $7. Local boys
who are interested in joining the world-renown choir will be able
to audition following the concert...
Tony Livingston
Bennie L. Kee
John L. Matkovich
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