The following incidents were among the 217 handled by the Snowflake-Taylor Police Department (STPD) during the period of Dec. 29 – Jan. 4. Persons who were cited, charged or arrested by STPD officers are accused of committing a civil violation or of criminal activity, but such accusations should raise no inference of guilt. At 12 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 29, Lolonzo Chee Simmons, 21, of Holbrook was arrested for trespassing and assault/domestic violence after an officer reported to a residence in the 800 block of East Cattle Lane in Taylor for a report of a domestic violence incident. At 4:58 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 30, a resident on South Crystal Circle in Taylor reported a residence was egged. At 10:16 p.m. on Thursday, a 17-year-old Show Low boy was cited and released to his father after being charged with underage DUI following a traffic stop on Casa Linda and Centennial Blvd. in Taylor for speeding and failure to obey a traffic control device. The vehicle was impounded. At 9:14 p.m. on Thursday, Whisper Bennett, 18, was cited and released for underage drinking and DUI after officers responded to a domestic incident on West 1st South Street. Bennett was located and pulled over on a traffic stop on Centennial Blvd and Papermill Road in Taylor. At 6:50 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 1, Jimmy Hinton, 42, of Taylor was charged with criminal damage, disorderly conduct, threatening and intimidating, and domestic violence, after an officer was dispatched to a residence in the 700 block of North Chelsea Court in Taylor for a report of a domestic violence incident. Hinton fled the scene and left the state before he could be located. At 8:10 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 4, Vicente Howard, 33, of Snowflake was arrested for assault, disorderly conduct, domestic violence and three warrants after an officer responded to a domestic violence incident at Fairway Manor on Lyoncrest Road in Snowflake. Howard was booked into the Navajo County Jail. At 4:42 p.m. on Tuesday, Joshua Walton, 37, of Taylor was arrested for trespassing after an officer was dispatched to Family Dollar, located at 36 Main St. in Snowflake, for a report of a disturbance. Walton was booked into the county jail. At 9:55 p.m. on Tuesday, Callin Burnham, 28, of Snowflake was arrested for aggravated assault after officers were dispatched to a residence on East 1st South Street in Snowflake for a domestic violence incident involving strangulation. Burnham was booked into the county jail.
