Gallup PD seeks teenage offenders

Copyright © 2009
Gallup Independent
By Phil Stake
Staff writer

GALLUP — Police are looking for a burglary, and now battery, suspect who they say turned on his cohorts.

Daniel Nieto, 18, has gone on the lamb after he allegedly attacked Aaron “Chips” Sayre, 17, on July 2. Both boys — along with 14-year-old Jose Estrada — are the suspected masterminds behind a string of at least 30 burglaries, according to Gallup Police Detective Sgt. Matt Wright.

They were arrested in March for multiple counts of burglary and both were on probation, and awaiting trial, when a fight broke out after midnight in Sayre’s living room.

Nieto had already fled when police arrived, but not before allegedly smashing the glass out of the front door to Sayre’s mother’s home, according to Gallup Police Officer Clinton Pennington’s report.

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