New Mexico State Police officer James Jenkins handcuffs suspected
drunk driver Alfredo Hammitt after he refused to comply with field
sobriety test instructions Monday night near the intersection of
Sixth Street and Logan Avenue in Gallup. After handcuffing Hammitt
officer Jenkins discovered a can of beer in his jacket pocket. Hammitt
was driving with a revoked license and had two adults and two children
in the car when he was arrested on New Year's Eve, and faces several
felony charges. [Photo by Jeff Jones/Independent] Full
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While New Mexico State Police officer James Jenkins talks to the
other two adults who were riding in a car, a young boy who was riding
in the back seat looks back at the patrol car where Alfredo Hammitt
sits in custody after being arrested for drunk driving on Sixth
Street and Logan Avenue in Gallup. Jenkins' final DWI arrest for
2007 was number 159 for him for the year. [Photo by Jeff Jones/Independent]
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The best news photo of the year selected by photographers was taken
by Indepenent photographer Daniel Zollinger. Hono Rato holds his
daughter Jennifer Rato while waiting to participate in the night
parade of the 86th Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial in downtown Gallup
N.M. Rato is an Aztec dancer from Veracruz, Mexico and imagines
his daughter carrying on the dancing tradition. [Photo by Daniel
Zollinger/Independent]
This photo by Independent photographer Brian Leddy was selected
by photographers as the feature photo of the year. Charlie Williams,
a resident of Canton, Ga. working in Gallup, takes a drag off a
cigarette at the El Rancho Hotel on Monday evening. As of this past
Friday, New Mexico joined neighboring Arizona, Colorado and Utah
and 16 other states that have enacted smoking bans in restaurants,
bars, indoor workplaces and public places. [Photo by Brian Leddy/Independent]
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Wednesday
January 2, 2008
Selected
Stories:
A look back
... ; The Independent's top stories of 2007
Soldier
returns from Iraq; Woman's 20 years in military ends May 1
New Mexico offers
free radon kits
No tolerance
for drunken drivers; 'Could you please step out of the car?' heard
on New Year's Eve
Deaths
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