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Thoreau man charged with assault By Jim Tiffin GRANTS — Joseph Manning, 28, of a post office box in Thoreau, faces a preliminary hearing Aug. 28, in Cibola County Magistrate Court in connection with aggravated battery, three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, tampering with evidence and possession of drug paraphernalia. Grants Police Detective Sgt. James Spidle said complaints of a gun were made by several people but officers found a “slide” that looked like a silver gun but was plastic and a toy, that was used by Manning. If Manning is prosecuted and convicted of all counts, he faces about 14 years in state prison, up to a $26,000 fine, or both. Manning is currently in custody in the Cibola County Detention Center on a $30,000 bond. He was determined to be indigent and was appointed a public defender by the court. He was ordered by the court to take random urinalysis at the direction of the Cibola County Community Compliance Program. Grants police officers responded to the Riverwalk area in reference to a call about an argument involving a weapon, according to Magistrate Court records. An adult male told police he was approached by Manning pointing a gun at him, court records state. Manning then started beating the victim with the gun, which as it turned out later, to be a toy “slide,” which is the top part of a gun, Spidle said. Two other people then told police that Manning approached them under the bridge at Fifth Street and Santa Fe Avenue and pointed a gun at them, court records state. All witnesses said the gun was silver in color, court records state. Four officers located Manning, by the description the witnesses gave them, in the 300 block of San Jose Drive. He did not have any weapons on him, according to court records. The officers later found a silver toy gun in the San Jose and Fifth Street area. It was photographed and collected for evidence, court records state. Spidle said the reason the assault charges include
the “deadly weapon” stipulation is that Manning wrapped
the toy in a jacket and it appeared to the witnesses and victims
to be a gun. |
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