Students 'shop with a cop'

Megan Palacio smiles as her toys are rung up at Walmart with Grants Police Sgt. John Castaneda on Friday. — © 2009 Gallup Independent / Brian Leddy

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Gallup Independentt
By Jim Tiffin
Cibola County Bureau

GRANTS — On Friday, officers and firefighters from Grants Police, New Mexico State Police, Western New Mexico Correctional Facility and Grants Fire and Rescue picked up 18 students from area schools to participate in a “Shop with a Cop,” program.

Carlos Chavira, 13, a seventh-grader at St. Teresa’s Catholic School said: “I thought when the police showed up and called my name — because I did some bad stuff a while back — that they were there to arrest me.”

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