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Jolie Rouge
03-28-2005, 09:28 AM
GALLUP, N.M. (AP) - A man who was bound by the ankles, tied to a vehicle and dragged more than a mile was in critical condition Monday, police said.

Officers received a report early Sunday of an injured man in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant. They arrived to find Fausto Arellano, 32, and a rope. Drag marks led back to Arellano's home, said Erin Pablo, a Gallup Police Department detective.

Arellano, a single father of two, was airlifted to University of New Mexico Hospital.


No arrests have been made and a motive has not been established, Pablo said.



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YankeeMary
03-28-2005, 10:03 AM
How tragic....I pray he recovers and those that did this to him get punished. Unless he was a bad guy (child molester). I pray his children didn't see this. How horrible.

Jolie Rouge
04-02-2005, 01:27 PM
Suspect arrested in brutal N.M. dragging case
Victim remains in critical condition after being bound, pulled behind vehicle
The Associated Press
Updated: 9:57 a.m. ET April 2, 2005



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John Pete Talamante, suspected of participating in the dragging of Fausto Arellano behind a vehicle, is shown in an undated booking photo released by police.

GALLUP, N.M. - A 24-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the dragging of a Hispanic man behind a vehicle, which left the victim with burn-like abrasions over half his body.

John Pete Talamante was booked Friday on charges of kidnapping, aggravated battery and assault with intent to commit a violent felony.

Talamante was being held without bond in the McKinley County Detention Center, said Gallup police Chief Sylvester Stanley. More arrests were likely, he said.

The victim, 32-year-old Fausto Arellano, remained hospitalized in critical condition. He had been bound by the ankles and pulled by a rope for some 4,000 feet on Easter morning, according to police. Stanley said narcotics could be an “indirect motive” in the dragging, but added that officers had no indication that Arellano was involved in drugs.

The single father has two sons, ages 16 and 11. “This man is like Superman to his sons. He is their idol,” said Pedro Andablo, Arellano’s former brother-in-law.

Police who traced the route of the dragging say the rope snapped or Arellano broke free, and he crawled to the side of the road and collapsed.

Gallup, a town of 20,000 just east of the Arizona state line, is known as one of the largest American Indian trading centers in the Southwest.

Eurell T. Malone, owner of the M & M Trading Co., where Arellano has worked for 10 years, said the crime was senseless. “You have to be some kind of animal to drag a person behind a car,” Malone said. “Everyone’s asking, ’Why him? He was a kind and gentle man.”’

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