A Coyote man struck two men with a crowbar and a shovel, assaulted his girlfriend and injured himself in the process, according to Española Police.
The attacks allegedly revolved around a truck. Stanley Garcia, 41, had an argument with his girlfriend the night of March 6 at Big Rock Casino over him using her truck, officer Danny Pacheco said. His girlfriend had taken back her keys from Garcia and told Casino security he had stolen her truck, Pacheco said.
Garcia allegedly tried to punch his girlfriend March 7 while she was retrieving her pickup truck from the Santa Cruz area. The woman managed to escape Garcia and drove to Calle Vigil in Española, where the second attack took place, a police report states.
The victim met up with her two sons, and Alonzo Gallegos, 18, of Española, and Margarito Velasquez, 40, of Abiquiú, at the Calle Vigil residence.
Garcia arrived shortly thereafter, retrieved a shovel from the back of his pickup and allegedly struck Gallegos with it, according to court documents.
Garcia then attempted to climb over a wrought iron fence to access the property but slipped, and suffered stab wounds to his head, according to the police report.
Garcia then took a crowbar from the back of the truck and struck Velasquez in the back with it. Pacheco witnessed this attack as he pulled up to the scene, documents state.
Velasquez, Gallegos and Stanley Garcia were transported to Española Hospital for treatment of their injuries, according to court documents.
After he was treated and released, Garcia was booked on charges of assault on a household member, two counts of abandonment or abuse of a child for putting the female victim’s 13-year-old son and his own son in a dangerous situation, two counts of aggravated assault and two counts of aggravated battery for attacking Gallegos and Velasquez with the shovel and crowbar. Garcia’s son had been in his father’s truck during the attacks at the Calle Vigil residence.
Garcia pleaded guilty to attempted tampering with evidence in 2005 in an aggravated assault case, according to an online court records database. In 2001, he was charged with two counts of aggravated assault and resisting, evading or obstructing an officer; he pleaded guilty to the latter charge and the former charges were dismissed, according to the database.