SATURDAY, JULY 16

Ÿ An officer responded to a street corner in reference to a report of a neglected child who was found standing in the road. He contact an adult male who was at the scene, holding a child. The male stated that he had been driving west down the street with his wife. While stopped at an intersection, they observed a little kid standing in the road. The driver stopped the car and asked the child where he lived and what his name was, but the child didn’t talk much, only saying two words, “bike” and “mommy.” The driver stated that he walked around the area with the child, asking everyone if they knew who the child was or where he lived, but no one had any idea. He stated that he had the child approximately 20 minutes before calling the police. The officer noticed the child repeatedly pointing down the street. The reporting party said that he did not walk in the direction he was pointing with the child. As the officer walked to the next block with the child, the child began repeatedly saying “bike, bike.” As the officer got close to the entrance of a mobile home park, he noticed a small tricycle sitting at the entrance way of the park. The little boy said it was his bike, and when the officer put him down, the child immediately got onto the tricycle and began pedaling into the trailer park. The reporting party and the officer followed him and began asking residents if they knew where the child lived, and were informed of the child’s name and where he lived. They were told the mother never watches the child and lets him run around with no supervision. A woman approached the officer, and when questioned identified herself as the mother. When told where her child had been found, she exhibited little concern that her child was missing for at least 30 minutes or longer. The woman stated to the officer, what was she supposed to do, chase her kid all around the trailer park because he doesn’t listen to her? The officer advised her that being a parent meant knowing where your kid is at all times. This case was forwarded to the district attorney’s office for proper charges, and is also being sent to the department of social services.

Ÿ An officer spoke with a female reporting party who told the officer she lost or someone stole her wallet out of her pocket while she was at the Cortez Cultural Center on July 15. She remembered having the wallet in her pocket at approximately 9 p.m. She watched the show there and went back to her motel at approximately 10 p.m., and noticed it was missing and began searching for it. She went to the Cultural Center on July 16 and they did not have the wallet.

TUESDAY, JULY 19

Ÿ An officer was dispatched to a residence in reference to two females fighting. The reporting party told officers that he and his 69-year-old wife were sitting in their living room when his wife responded to someone at the front door. Another woman forced her way into the residence after the wife told her not to enter the residence. The woman pushed her way in, cussing and yelling that she did not have the right to keep her kid, and then pushed the female resident of the home, who fell on her back. She then went down the hall to her son’s room, grabbed him and began pulling him down the hallway toward the living room. The child said that he didn’t want to go with her, to lock the door, and asked his grandma to call the cops. The female resident grabbed the suspect, and attempted to keep her from leaving with the child. The suspect pushed her to the floor, and she fell, landing on the child. The suspect then got on top of her and was swinging at her; the female resident’s husband attempted to pull her off, but was unable to. A neighbor responded to the scene and pulled the suspect out of the residence. The reporting party advised that the child is his grandson and that the suspect had abandoned the child three years prior, leaving the father as the primary custodian. The neighbor from across the street confirmed what he had witnessed before and while entering the scene, including the suspect striking the female resident, before he was able to pull the suspect off of her. After being advised that the police had been called, the suspect left in her car. The police also spoke with the child at the scene, and are obtaining a warrant for the suspect with the charges of first-degree criminal trespass, third-degree assault against an at-risk adult, and child abuse.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20

Ÿ An officer was contacted by dispatch in reference to a female caller saying that she had been at her ex-husband’s residence and a female there had pulled a gun on her. Dispatch advised that the caller had hung up the phone, saying that she needed to get to the emergency room. Dispatch was unable to reach her after calling several times, and also found that she had not checked into the emergency room. Two officers contacted the caller at her residence, who told them that she needed to go to the ER due to an existing ailment. She said that she was taking her child to her ex-husband’s residence so he could watch the child while she went to the hospital, and that when she was knocking on his bedroom window, she saw that he was having sex with another female. She said that she began banging on the window and it broke. She told the officer that the female that was with her ex-husband came up to the window and had a pistol in her hand and told her that she was going to kill her. Medics arrived and took the reporting party to the ER. Officers spoke next with the ex-husband and the woman at his residence. The male responded that his ex-wife had arrived and began banging on his window, and after he asked her to leave, she broke the window. The woman he identified as his girlfriend stated that she had held up a black pellet gun at this point. The reporting party had also used a small baseball bat to try to pry the front door open; the male took the bat from her. The reporting party said that she had only tried to push the door in to speak with her ex-husband, and that she grabbed the bat and used it to try to keep him from shutting the door while she tried to speak with him. The officer noted that it showed evidence of paint transfer that matched the paint on the front door, and it was entered into evidence. The officers took note of the damage at the scene. The reporting party was arrested for criminal mischief and domestic violence and was left in the care and custody of detention center staff.