A 19-year-old Alcalde man received a sentence of 364 days of probation on a charge of resisting an officer, Aug. 1, following a plea deal for a case in which he was charged for trying to race a police car in the middle of Española.
Ayden Martinez previously waived a preliminary hearing in the case on June 18, on the grounds, handwritten on a waiver form, “in exchange for offer to resisting, evading, obstructing upon or within one month of arraignment in district court.” He was initially charged with aggravated fleeing an officer, a fourth-degree felony with a maximum sentence of 18 months.
According to the plea deal, Martinez must complete 16 hours of community service, a safe driving class and provide proof of employment.
Española City Police Officer David Jaramillo charged Martinez on April 19, after he chased his yellow Ford Mustang. Jaramillo wrote in a statement of probable cause he was headed to another call when Martinez revved his engine and sped off to the south when the light he was stopped at turned green.
Instead of going to the call he had been sent to, Jaramillo gave chase and Martinez passed cars in the median, then started to fishtail as he passed State Road 76, almost crashed into a couple of cars, then stopped in the median in front of the Country Farm Supply store just before Paseo de Oñate, on Riverside, Jaramillo wrote.
Martinez first allegedly told Jaramillo that he has two jobs and didn’t know he was supposed to work that morning, at Pizza Hut, he wrote.
“I advised him the Pizza Hut was behind us that he passed it way back,” Jaramillo wrote. “He stated he knew and when I asked then why are we stopped here? He advised me ‘I’m not going to lie I was trying to out run you guys when I saw your lights.’”