Staff Reports.
A man has allegedly been arrested for stealing a trailer, which police haven’t found as of press time.
On Nov. 17, around 12:15 am, Gallup Police Officer Coleman Watrkins was dispatched to Maverik, located at 505 U.S. Hwy. 491 after Metro Dispatch received a call about a stolen trailer that had reportedly been taken from a yard about an hour prior to the call. The person who’d taken the trailer was reportedly driving a black four-door Honda Ridgeline pickup truck. Gallup Police and the McKinley County Sheriff’s Department were asked to be on the lookout for the vehicle and trailer.
Watkins found the Honda at the gas station, although it didn’t have the trailer attached to it anymore. Watkins asked the driver of the vehicle, Samuel Millsaps, to get out of the vehicle to talk to him.
According to Watkins’ report, Millsaps, 36, said the vehicle belonged to his boss. He allegedly said he’d just gotten back from a job in Thoreau.
After he spoke to Watkins, another officer escorted Millsaps to his patrol vehicle.
A woman who had flagged Watkins down at the gas station spoke to him next. She showed him a video of the black Honda driving into the gas station parking lot, and then three individuals getting out of the vehicle and then taking a trailer from Novo’s Custom Auto, located at 619 Rylandon Rd.
The woman estimated that the trailer cost about $1,500.
Millsaps was arrested for receiving stolen property (over $500 but not more than $2,500) and tampering with evidence. His preliminary hearing in Gallup Magistrate Court is scheduled for Dec. 3.
