Jarvis Quandalacy, 46, of Gallup was arraigned Friday in McKinley County Magistrate Court on one count of using a telephone to threaten and was being held on a $5,000 bond at the McKinley County Adult Detention Center, the Gallup Independent reported over the weekend.

Quandalacy was arrested Thursday evening at his home without incident after threats of violence had been directed at fellow employees at the Navajo Nation Department of Justice, the Independent said.

"Apparently the cell phone call was made from here in Gallup, so that's how our agency got involved," Gallup police spokeswoman Sgt. Erin Toadlena-Pablo told the paper.

Some 15 officers were at the scene of the arrest, and the Emergency Response Team was on standby but was not called out, she told the Independent.

A shotgun was found at Quandalacy's residence, the Independent said.

A news release issued last week when Quandalacy was still at large described him as a former employee of the justice department, but Navajo Nation communications director George Hardeen told the Independent that Quandalacy had never been officially let go, according to an earlier report.

Quandalacy had turned in his laptop and other work items, but had never submitted a letter of resignation nor had he been notified that he was being dismissed, Hardeen told the Independent last week.

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