Two men are wanted on warrants for allegedly beating a man over a debt and breaking his teeth with a rifle while a third man was arrested in mid-April on a warrant.
Española City Police have charged three men for allegedly luring another man to a house and bashing in his teeth with the “AR-style” rifle in a plan to either steal from him or collect a debt.
Detective James Mayers filed charges against Gino Tapia, 28, of Española; Alfonso Quintana, 43, of Española; and Eric Herrera, 42, of Coyote, for the alleged beating of Davey Sisneros. All three men are charged with aggravated battery causing great bodily harm and conspiracy to commit aggravated battery.
While Tapia was arrested on April 14, Quintana and Herrera are still wanted on state-wide warrants. A fourth man, Lorenzo Bustos, was not charged, but the victim alleged he was lured to Bustos’ house and Bustos was the one who lured him there.
Mayers applied for the warrants on April 4.
Tapia’s bond was initially set at $1,000, but was dropped to $200 on April 16. A preliminary hearing in his case is set for May 7. He has a pending district court case for possession of a stolen vehicle, felon in possession of a firearm and two counts of drug trafficking
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Mayers copied the narrative of Officer Shaun Olson’s incident report for a portion of his affidavit for an arrest warrant. According to Olson’s account, Sisneros told him he won a $1,200 jackpot at the Ohkay Casino on March 30.
Some time after, Bustos texted him that he needed to come to his house “or he would die” and a friend took him to a home on Calle del Rio. He walked into the house and Tapia, Quintana, Bustos and Herrera wanted the money.
Quintana ordered Sisneros to lie on his stomach so he could pull his arms out of their sockets, broke his teeth with a rifle and then pointed it at him.
“Davy Sisneros was able to get free, as Alfonso Quintana fired a single round missing Davy Sisneros and striking the door,” Olson wrote.
Sisneros ran to the nearby Valdez Park and flagged down a Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputy. The men stopped chasing him after he got to the deputy, Olson wrote.
The house was previously a target of drug investigations and a source of complaints from neighbors. While Mayers was drafting a search warrant for the house, Sisneros checked himself out of the hospital against medical advice, Mayers wrote.
Officers and deputies surrounded the house and got Bustos to exit. He told officers that when Sisneros arrived at the house, Quintana, Herrera and Tapia were waiting for him because he owed them money, Mayers wrote.
“Lorenzo stated they closed the door and he, Lorenzo, could hear them, Davey, Gino, Eric and Alfonso,” he wrote.
Bustos told Mayers he heard screaming coming from the room and he kicked the door open. After he did, Herrera hit him in the face. He explained the text messages by saying that Sisneros was “going to get hurt if he didn’t show up,” he wrote.
“Lorenzo stated Eric, Gino and Alfonso stated Davey was going to get hurt if he didn’t show up,” Mayers wrote.
Bustos told Mayers that after he kicked the door down, he tried to help Sisneros clean up and then Sisneros left and that the other three men “showed up randomly” at his house.
Mayers wrote that officers searched Bustos’ house but did not find any of the evidence they were looking for.