Española City Police officers charged an Española man with two counts of child abuse after he allegedly jumped out of his girlfriend’s car, then tried to get back in my prying down the car windows.
Officer Manuel Gallegos arrested Jacob Martinez, 27, on two counts of child abuse and one count each of disorderly conduct and assault on a household member, on Nov. 22.
Gallegos wrote in an incident report that he was sent to Spruce Street for a report of a domestic incident in progress at 7:11 p.m. and when he got there, he saw a man with his hands behind his back and immediately handcuffed him.
Martinez’s girlfriend told Gallegos that her boyfriend called and asked her to pick him up and take him to the hospital so he could see his grandpa. She did and dropped him off, then went to Taco Bell to get food for “the kids.” While there, she got a call from Martinez, yelling, asking her where she went and why she left him there. She went to go pick him up, Gallegos wrote.
When she picked him up at the Blake’s Lotaburger, he was “acting aggressive towards her,” described as non-stop yelling, getting mad at everything and continuously telling her he wanted to go home, and then, that he wanted her to take him back to the hospital.
As she tried to make the turn from Paseo de Oñate onto Spruce Street to take him back to the hospital, he jumped out of the car. She stopped, and managed to close and lock her door.
He got on her vehicle, then on the side, and yelled that she ran him over. As she drove to Spruce Street, he started punching her car window, then tried to force the window down so he could get back in, Gallegos wrote.
Manuel Abeyta-Ayala, who identified himself as an off-duty officer but didn’t say who he works for, was driving behind the vehicle and saw Martinez jump out and had to brake to avoid hitting him.
When he saw Martinez trying to force is way into the car, he got out, told him he is an off-duty cop and to relax, Gallegos wrote based on his interview with him.
Abeyta-Ayala told Gallegos that Martinez tried to leave but “Mr. Abeyta caught him and told him to sit down on the ground” and when he tried to get up a second time, he “put him on the ground and held him there till Law Enforcement arrived,” Gallegos wrote.
Martinez told Gallegos that everything was his fault, he has having a hard time due to multiple deaths in the family and his grandpa being in the hospital and when he jumped out of the car, “he didn’t care if anything would have happened to him during that moment,” he wrote.
Two days later, Rio Arriba Magistrate Judge Alexandra Naranjo ordered him released on his own recognizance on conditions that he have no contact with victims and witnesses. A status conference is set for Dec. 17.