Home-invasion suspect still loose

Navajo Police in Kayenta are still on the lookout for Ambrose Bennett, no age given, who is sought on a felony warrant from the FBI out of Flagstaff.

Police said Monday that the search began Dec. 12 when three officers went to Bennett's residence in Inscription House, Ariz., to arrest him on the warrant.

"Bennett has a high propensity for violence," according to police reports, which added that Bennett is believed to have been involved in a number of burglaries in the Kayenta area.

He is wanted for a Dec. 11 home invasion in which he is accused of threatening two elderly couples at knifepoint and with an axe. He managed to get away that time by stealing one of the couple's cars.

Police said when they went to Bennett's house Dec. 12, they discovered that he had fled on foot by going out the back door and running into the woods.

The officers anticipated that he would try to elude them, so they brought tracking dog with them and began the chase, which led from the woods back into the residential area of Inscription House.

Despite the assistance of the K-9 dog, police said Bennett doubled back numerous times among the houses and as a result was able to get away.

Police said they stopped the search after three hours but are continuing to watch for Bennett during their regular patrols.

Anyone who has information about Bennett's location is asked to contact the Kayenta police at 928-697-5642.

Two stabbed in Fort D fight

Two Fort Defiance men were treated for stab wounds after they got into a fight with several other males Dec. 13.

It began when a car containing several males came up to a house in the low-rent housing area in Fort Defiance.

According to police, the men got out and got into a fight with two men identified as Philbert Kee, no age given, and Wyatt Phillips, 21. Kee was stabbed in his side and Phillips in his left arm.

Both were taken to the Fort Defiance hospital, where they were treated and released. Neither provided any information on who stabbed them.

Alcohol involved in fracas

Tribal police in Window Rock said they investigated a report of property damage that occurred at 4 a.m. on Dec. 13 in the low-rent housing area.

It began with a report of domestic violence.

The suspect, identified as Alicia Spencer, 31, a non-Native, was reported to be drinking with Jefferson Baker, no age or hometown given, when she "started getting out of hand," Baker told police.

He left the residence and went to his grandfather's house nearby. Shortly thereafter, Spencer allegedly got into a fight with an unidentified male and was asked to leave.

She went looking for Baker at the grandfather's house and after knocking on the doors with no response, she knocked on a bedroom window and broke it.

Emerson Tulley, who was present at the time, told police he went outside to confront Spencer and found her hiding behind a trash container. He detained her until police arrived.

Former Page superintendent pleads guilty to theft

PHOENIX - Former Page Unified School District Superintendent Greg Conway, 57, of Mesa, Ariz., pleaded guilty Dec. 17 to theft and agreed to pay $85,000 in restitution, according to the Arizona attorney general's office.

Conway pleaded guilty to one count of theft, a Class 3 felony, and one count of attempted misuse of public money, a Class 5 felony, in Maricopa County Superior Court.

An investigation conducted by the auditor general's office alleged that, between August 2003 and June 2005, while he served as superintendent, Conway violated Arizona's conflict of interest laws, committed theft, misused public funds and altered PUSD governing board documents to cover up his wrongdoing.

At the Dec. 17 hearing, Conway admitted that he issued $17,216 in unauthorized payments to himself and $6,800 to the PUSD assistant superintendent. Conway issued one payment to himself and the payment to a PUSD assistant superintendent without authorization from the PUSD governing board.

He issued a second payment to himself pursuant to an inter-governmental agreement with the Coconino County school superintendent's office but without notifying the PUSD governing board.

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