the first few photos are from a chase and subsequent arrest that passed me while i was on my way to a sports assignment. i’m glad no one was hurt (including me — i try to be sure i don’t surprise/startle officers — or suspects for that matter — when i arrive early to a scene) and our cops/courts reporter wrote a brief on the event. the last couple of photos are from a really minor fire that was so small, it escaped detection from the Farmington Fire Department — initially. i was at the scene when they left, so decided to make the best of it and get wild art of a couple kids flying kites on a windy day, but i was glad i stuck around. smoke started to billow out of the vents behind one of the buildings, so FFD was called back. they returned, and quickly put it out. there were never any flames visible, and although there was smoke damage to a few other apartments, everyone in the building was lucky it wasn’t worse. apartment fires have the potential to spread quickly and end tragically.
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Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Farmington Police Officer Jerry Worrell escorts a suspect from hiding in a structure on a property near the corner of North Orchard Avenue and East Comanche Street, where a vehicle pursuit involving police ended on Thursday.
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Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; FPD Officer Travis Sprell shouts to another officer Thursday to follow a fleeing suspect after a vehicle pursuit ended in the neighborhood of North Orchard Avenue and East Comanche Street.
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the photo below was just a quiet, interesting photo i had to post. life goes on.
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Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Farmington Police Officer Jerry Worrell, far left, detains a suspect found hiding in a structure on a property near the corner of North Orchard Avenue and East Comanche Street, where a vehicle pursuit involving police ended on Thursday.
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here’s a straggler-photo from last month. for no particular reason.
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Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Xavier Tsosie, 8, holds up a book he examines while his two aunts look for other books Monday at the Farmington Public Library. The library has activities scheduled for children throughout the spring-break week.
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below is a photo from a surprisingly fruitful assignment today, when i was asked to get photos of a neighborhood that had its mail service interrupted for several days due to a postal carrier being chased by a dog that got loose from one of the homes. the reporter showed up at the same time i did, and we immediately saw a home that we thought may be the one where the dogs in question lived. it had about four dogs (mostly pits) visible, and a couple of children she said she was babysitting in the front yard. read the reporter’s story here for more info, but long story short, i suspect this woman might very well get a visit from the authorities (she mentioned one of the dogs on her property had bitten a child and herself — and she didn’t seem reluctant at all to talk to us, which i found very odd. and refreshing;)
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Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; A dog living at a home in Farmington reacts to strangers Thursday while chained on the property. The home has been the subject of numerous complaints regarding aggressive dogs kept there.
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what can i say. i’m just happy i made it to practice in time, after the breaking news, to at least get a portrait.
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Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; The Piedra Vista varsity girls golf team, from left, Grace Gutierrez, 17, Gracey Brown, 17, Kyra Garrison, 18, Domi Dinallo, 17, and 14-year-old Miel Johnson hang together at Piñon Hills Golf Course on Thursday after an afternoon practice.
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Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Billy Howard, an employee of Shiya-Strephans Contracting Co., keeps his attention toward a water truck while working on construction of a water pipeline Monday at West Apache Street and West Main Street. The pipeline will carry water through Farmington to the Navajo Nation when completed.
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Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Zyan Begay, 9, works to help untangle a kite flown by his friend, 7-year-old Tierren Wyatt, after high winds took it for an unpredictable flight Monday outside the San Juan Apartments on East Main Street.
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Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Farmington Fire Department personnel work to extinguish the fire on the third floor at San Juan Apartments on Monday. There were no injuries reported, but the Fire Department said there was heavy fire and smoke damage to the two units.
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Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Robert Gonzalez, a resident in the building affected by Monday’s fire at San Juan Apartments in north Farmington, watches smoke billow out of an open window in what he said was his apartment on the third floor of building C. Gonzalez tried to contain the fire until the Farmington Fire Department arrived on scene.
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