Chama Valley & Abiquiú Daily Digest Saturday, October 10, 2026
Ty's Take
There's a thread running through this week's blotter that ought to make anybody who works retail or runs a business around here think twice about locking up at night. Two separate incidents, both involving men acting in ways that cross from nuisance into something meaner, and both landing in the hands of law enforcement who are already stretched thin covering country this wide. The third item, about students making the President's List, is the kind of news that usually gets buried but probably matters more in the long run. Still, it's the first two that'll stick with people working the counter at Bode's or any of the other small outfits that keep this corridor running. This is a safe place, or it has been, and there's a difference between the random stranger passing through and the kind of behavior that makes a clerk or a cashier wonder if they can make it to closing alone.
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Rio Grande SUN
Police Blotter: Homeless Man Threatens Employees, Then Flashes Them
Law enforcement agencies across the Española Valley, including Española Police, Ohkay Owingeh Tribal Police, Rio Arriba County Sheriff's deputies, and State Police, responded to an incident involving a homeless man who threatened and indecently exposed himself to employees. The police blotter...
Man Arrested for Allegedly Trying to Get Woman in Car
A Tres Piedras man was arrested by New Mexico State Police after allegedly impersonating a police officer and trying to force a woman into his vehicle. Johnathon Mullally, 36, was charged with aggravated drunk driving, impersonating an officer, and assault with intent to commit an offense.
Viarreal, Lujan on President’s List
Two Española residents, Tristen Viarreal and Briana Lujan, earned spots on Southern New Hampshire University's summer 2026 president's list. Both full-time undergraduate students achieved the distinction by maintaining a grade point average of 3.700 or higher for the reporting term.
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