Navajo Times (Newspaper) - September 4, 1997, Window Rock, Arizona of Latest police news giving department a black eye Officials express caution over misbehavior of tribal police officers By DONOVAN Navajo Times Correspondent WINDOW ROCK Navajo tribal police officers have been in the news quite a bit lately and not all of it has been leading the tribes po lice chief to say that he is getting quite concerned about what hes see All of this is going to give us a black said Navajo Police Chief Leonard Butler after three tribal po lice officers in the last two weeks have either been placed on adminis leave or arrested after allega tions have been placed against them on charges ranging from domestic violence to sexual assault of a The situation faced by tribal police today is the worst since several years ago when in the space of jusi a couple of two tribal police officers were charged with killing their That led to tougher standards deal ing with domestic violence within the force and renewed efforts to make sure that police officers prob lems with stress got the help they The latest series of episodes is also having leaders in the police depart ment looking at their operations to see if more changes need to be The latest series of events began two weeks ago when Officer Dempsey Harvey of Chinle was placed on administrative leave be cause of domestic violence com Then this past week came reports that a second identified as Jerome of Flagstaff was arrested by Coconino County again on charges of domestic Police officials said that Dennison has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation by in ternal affairs into allegations that he made threats against his wife and at beaten On top of a third iden as Michael Yazzie of Tuba was picked up by the FBI on Tuesday night because of pending charges dealing with the ab duction and repeated rape of a old Navajo girl this past Sunday near the Old Airport in Tuba City a of the tribal police has already pleaded not guilty at an arraignment Tribal police officials said the girl was resting in a vehicle while her mother was attending a tent When she left to go 10 the she was abducted by an Indian male who repeatedly heal her and raped her several times at different loca tions in the The victim was then released and then ran back to her who immediately took her to the Tuba City hospital for Butler said that these kinds of in and especially those dealing with domestic violence means that there may be a lack of supervision and he plans to look at the manage ment aspect of the police department very carefully to see if something See page A2 Fair parade will be no puppet show By DONOVAN Navajo Tunes Correspondent WINDOW ROCK Thomas Morgan is I andling his first tribal fair parade and he knows what he wants and what he doesnt What he doesnt want is the type of puppet show that has existed in past 1 want this to be a firstclass pa he The first step toward doing this is a firm to have the pa rade over with by noon on instead of having it drag on to past 2 as it did last If you have it go past you interfere with the song and dance and powwow as well as the social gathering aspect of the Morgan Thats not going to happen this he in part because of a decision to limit the number of en tries to 250 and to crack down on the number of people who file late entry The Resources Committee of the Navajo Nation realizing that something must be has already approved substantial increases in the cost to enter the fair Gone is the entry fee of the The cheapest entry fee this year is which is for all nonpolitical entries who file by the September 2 Those who file after the deadline pay and all political no matter when they pay page A3 Police officials identify shooting suspect as Navajo man By BECENTI Navajo Times Staff Law enforce ment officials have identified a Na vajo man as the person killed in a gun fight with a McKinley County Sheriffs Deputy early Wednesday According to the New Mexico Fed eral Bureau of the man has been identified as Robert Henry who was residing with a girlfriend south of Gallup at the time of his While reportedly attempting to protect himself at the University of New Mexico Hospital in FBI Spokesman Doug Beldon says the investigation remains open but what he can release so far is a basic scenario of what investigators ered at the crime scene south of According to deputy Saavedra pulled over a suspected Driving While Intoxicated driver at about As the officer was walking back to his unit to conduct a routine check on the fied as he was shot and The officer returned fire a gun battle JOund of gunshots prompted shot and killed Henry Deputy Saavedra k listed in stable condition Miss Navajo crown takes on new symbolic jewel design By BECENTI Navajo Tunes Staff WINDOW ROCK The Miss Navajo Nation crown has a whole new The outgoing Miss Navajo Josephine unveiled Monday the latest crown a product of tradi tion aad a symbol of It is Navajo crafted and de signed by the Boyd family living in located in the north ern part of the Navajo Erma says her family is honored to have done the task of designing a new For more than two she and her husband Leroy and their two Leroy and worked to com plete the Chah the tradi tional reference the Miss Navajo Nation We met with the Miss Navajo Nation They emphasized that it must have a history of the Na j We toW them we could pot it and that it would be placed crown regents tbe