Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies charged a Cordova woman for allegedly attacking her partner/caregiver with a cooking pan while drunk, although her victim is trying to get the charges dropped.
Deputy Cameron Chavez charged Jackie Torres, 59, with one count of misdemeanor aggravated battery against a household member on Oct. 17, after being called to an open 911 call at Private Drive 1313, he wrote in a criminal complaint.
Before he arrived at the house, dispatchers told him there was an open line and women were arguing and one of them stated, “I am going to beat your ass” and there was arguing back and forth, he wrote.
When he got to the property, he found Torres and the victim. The victim told him she called 911 for help and said her partner and caregiver of 30 years, Torres, beat her, including hitting her in the head with a pan, Chavez wrote.
Her injuries included a bump on her head and she said she had also been punched and admitted to drinking, he wrote.
The victim told another deputy, Joey Graves, that she had been drinking and fell asleep in their car. Torres tried to pull her out and “was being aggressive.” Later, she was in her bedroom when Torres allegedly came in and started punching her in the head and hitting her in the head with the pan.
“I did observe a large bump on the top of her head as well as a bruise under her left eye,” Graves wrote in his incident report.
Torres told Chavez that she picked up the victim the previous day after the victim’s car got stuck in a ditch and she said the victim had been drinking heavily and “was behaving erratically,” Chavez wrote.
“According to Torres, the argument began when (the victim) could not locate her medication, which led to a physical altercation,” Chavez wrote. “Torres admitted to hitting (the victim) with a pan but alleged it was in self-defense after being struck first.”
Torres told deputies that the victim “had expressed suicidal ideations, including a desire to die peacefully,” Chavez wrote.
Rio Arriba Magistrate Judge Alexandra Naranjo ordered Torres released on her own recognizance Oct. 20, two days after the arrest, with conditions including that she not have any contact with the alleged victim.
The victim filed a form stating she did not want to press charges on Oct. 27. An initial pre-trial hearing is set for Dec. 2.