At approximately 10:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 21, officers with the Holbrook Police Department were called to the Coronado II apartments on Mission Lane after a woman reported that her boyfriend, Tilton Gishie, 26, had assaulted her, her sister and her two uncles and then fled. Gishie was located the following morning at approximately 12:30 a.m. on Highway 77 by Navajo County Sheriff’s deputies who were responding to a report of a vehicle that had been parked on the side of the road over an hour. When the deputy arrived, she conducted a DUI investigation. According to his girlfriend who was in the vehicle, she had gone to stay with a cousin at the Roseway Inn in Holbrook when Tilton showed up and forced his way into the room, assaulted her and forced her into his car, then fled up Highway 77 north towards Indian Wells. He allegedly threatened that he would kill her before letting her be with someone else and refused to let her out of the vehicle. Gishie was charged with possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, preventing the use of a telephone in an emergency, threatening and intimidating, aggravated DUI while driving without a license, aggravated DUI, aggravated DUI with a blood alcohol content of .08 percent or more, kidnapping/domestic violence, aggravated assault/domestic violence, violation of probation, and four counts each of failure to appear and assault with intent to cause injury. He was booked into the Navajo County Jail.
