Tag: Navajo Police Department
Darrin Begay, Assault by Strangulation and Kidnapping, New Mexico 2025
⏱ 2 min read A 34-year-old Shiprock man’s vicious attack on a victim in June left them for dead, but the perpetrator’s reign of terror ended with a guilty plea in federal court. Darrin Begay, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, unleashed a brutal assault on the victim on June 30, 2025, punching, kicking,…
Tenille Quintawna Peshlakai, Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, New Mexico 2024
⏱ 2 min read A brutal collision on a New Mexico highway ended with a Farmington woman behind bars. Tenille Quintawna Peshlakai, 33, is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. On September 2, 2024, she got into an argument with a motorcyclist at a gas station, then deliberately rammed him off the road, sending…
James Smiley Jr, Unprovoked Gun Threat, New Mexico 2025
⏱ 2 min read James Smiley Jr., a 56-year-old enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, stormed into a residence in Two Grey Hills, New Mexico, on February 28, 2025, and pointed a gun at three people without provocation. Smiley, who was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison, threatened to kill his victims and fired a…
