A Chimayó man who allegedly beat his 89-year-old father so severely, he sent him to the intensive care unit, then fought with deputies trying to arrest him, received a suspended sentence after pleading to lesser charges.
Amarante Jaramillo, 45, pleaded guilty to battery on a peace officer and resisting arrest on Nov. 4 and per his plea agreement, he will be on supervised probation for two-and-a-half years, but if he has no violations for the first two years, the remaining six months will be unsupervised. His sentence was entirely suspended.
Prosecutors asked a judge to hold Jaramillo without bail pending trial, which was granted. He was held in jail without bail between his arrest on March 8 and the day he pleaded guilty, Nov. 5, a total of 225 days.
District Judge Jason Lidyard wrote in the order holding him without bail, that Jaramillo broke free from his wheelchair restraints and hit deputies as he tried to escape after his arrest.
“The Defendant’s violence during this incident was unrelenting in nature,” Lidyard wrote.
The attack on his father was “extensive and violent in nature. The Defendant used his hands to cause severe injuries to the victim, injuries significant enough to cause vomiting from the victim,” Lidyard wrote.
Among the conditions of his probation, he is prohibited from having any contact with the victim in the case, Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s Deputy Nicholas Varela, or Varela’s family.
Jaramillo did not plead guilty to attacking his father and his father is not listed as a victim.
According to an obituary on the Rivera Family Funeral Home website, Jaramillo’s father died in September.
As part of the plea deal, Prosecutor Stu de Haan dismissed charges of aggravated battery against a household member causing great bodily harm, assault on an officer, resisting arrest and escape from custody of an officer.
District Judge Anastasia Martin accepted his plea deal.
The Attack
Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s Deputy Andres Sanchez charged Jaramillo on March 8 for the attack on his father, and subsequent attacks on officers, after he was sent to a house on State Road 76 in Chimayó for a report of a fight between a father and son, he wrote in a statement of probable cause for Jaramillo’s arrest.
Inside the house, the father was sitting on a chair, bleeding “heavily” from his head and right arm. The man told them he was beaten by his son, who was still inside his house, he wrote.
At the hospital, Sanchez spoke to the father in the intensive care unit.
He said his son came home after being gone all day and argued with him for no reason, pushed him around a few times and then pushed him to the ground, before punching him “a lot,” he wrote.
While in a holding cell at the sheriff’s office, Jaramillo allegedly urinated, while saying “(Expletive) you (expletive), how do you like that,” Sanchez wrote.
When a deputy was moving him back to a patrol car to take him to jail, he allegedly elbowed him in the chest, then tried to walk away.
The deputy grabbed his shirt and he fell into the patrol car, denting it. He then elbowed a deputy again and was taken to the ground, he wrote.
“In the event when Monty was escorted to the ground, he hit the right side of his head on the ground and sustained a small laceration and bump,” Sanchez wrote.