ACOMA PUEBLO – Karl Shroulote, Sr., 46, of Acoma Pueblo pleaded guilty to sexual abuse on the pueblo. Shroulote is an enrolled member of the Acoma Pueblo. Sentencing has not been scheduled but he will not be remanded to prison until scheduling. This comes as part of a plea deal negotiated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Shroulote’s Federal Public Defender, Melissa Ayn Morris. While he is not remanded to custody at this point, Shroulote Raquel Ruiz-Velez represented the United States of America in this case, using information from the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Acoma Pueblo Police Department.

LAGUNA, N.M. – Audra Lee, 38, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation was sentenced on December 13 to five years and 10 months in prison for assault with a dangerous weapon back in 2020.

A fire in the Village of Milan on December 26 was caused after a citizen with a burn permit lost control of the fire they started to eliminate overgrown weeds. The fire was in the area of Motel Drive. The citizen did have a burn permit and received minor burns but did not need to be transported to the hospital.

December 10 Delbert Yazzie, born in 2000: Warrant December 21 Nanette Nunley, born in1967: Municipal Warrant December 22 Hunter Shult, born in 2004: Warrant Samantha Belin, born in 1990: Driving while revoked/ Suspended December 24 Quentin Howard, born in 2001: Disorderly Conduct, Concealing Identity, Public Nuisance, Resisting Arrest.

Rep. Stansbury, colleagues secured the funding to replace school after years of work by To’Hajiilee community leaders and educators Press Release WASHINGTON — U.S.

MILAN, N.M. – Ever since he took the helm of Milan Police Department, Police Chief Carl Ustupski has made a massive push to focus on the mental health of the people of Milan, New Mexico, and the officers under his watch. He has created programs in the village to help connect those struggling through mental health crises find support and help to manage their feelings and emotions. Now, he is making a push to help all the first responders of Cibola County.

Across Cibola County on Christmas Eve, December 24, a series of traffic accidents cut off all traffic into and out of Grants, New Mexico. The chaos caused by these accidents, while none of them were fatal, was more than enough to spread local law enforcement thin. Sheriff Larry Diaz said that all of the responding agencies worked as quick as they could and with as much efficiency as possible. He said that all of the agencies involved had good communication.

Gosh how time flies… it’s been 5 years now since we started painting Christmas scenes and figures on business windows here in Grants NM, and our neighboring Village of Milan, using our local elementary schools’ 4th grade students. “I have an idea“, I mentioned to my wife Evelyn at a time near Christmas in 2017 after I had watched an enterprising artist from a town a hundred miles away paint a Christmas tree on a local business window. He finished and collected his fee and left. I thought to myself “why don’t use our local elementary students to paint windows for the Christmas holidays”? I mentioned that idea to Evelyn and her response was “great, let’s see what we can do!” We called our niece Joanna Fitch, a fourth grade teacher in Milan at the time, to see how she could help. She talked to her school’s principal Clara DeArmond, and fellow teachers Amanda Valdez and Angela Barela, and they got permission to do so. Twenty 4th graders from Milan Elementary school painted elves, Santa’s, candy canes and Christmas trees on 20 businesses and at a $20 dollar donation for each we achieved $400.00 which would go to Grants Mainstreet project (which I had joined) and split with the Grants/ Milan Rotary Club to support their backpack program feeding needy children food on weekends. Awesome!