An Albuquerque man is wanted on a warrant out of Española Magistrate Court for allegedly stalking and harassing a 13-year-old girl and her family online.
Adam Montoya, 26, has been wanted on the New Mexico State Police warrant since Feb. 18, charging him with two counts each of harassment and using a telephone to harass, and one count each of aggravated stalking with a victim under 16 and assault.
State Police Officer Damian Romo wrote in an affidavit for an arrest warrant that he was dispatched to a call about harassment on Feb. 10. He met with a woman who told him that her 13-year-old daughter and her husband were being harassed online by Montoya.
She told Romo that the last time either had seen Montoya was nine months prior and that other family members had been receiving threatening text messages. According to the daughter, Montoya is the father of her aunt’s child, Romo wrote.
The following day, Romo talked to the husband, who said he had been receiving calls and text messages from Montoya, which he described as “inappropriate and life threatening,” Romo wrote.
Those messages included threats on his life, sent via text message.
When Romo talked to the girl, she said she blocked Montoya on Instagram after she found out that he was “screenshotting my stuff,” evidenced by her relatives receiving those screenshots.
After she blocked him on Instagram and restricted her profile, he started trying to message her on the video platform TikTok, Romo wrote.
“(The victim) stated that she felt ‘pissed off’ and ‘very disrespected’ by the messages she continually received,” Romo wrote. “The juvenile stated that the continuous messages she received were unwanted and she feels in fear for her life.”
Romo wrote that he reviewed the text messages from Montoya to the girl and her father, where he allegedly made “homicidal statements toward (girl’s father) and multiple sexual in nature statements regarding (the victim).” Other messages included photos from the victim’s social media accounts, including one with the message, “Lovem underage.”
He also reviewed call logs that showed calls from Montoya coming in early in the morning or late at night.
Some of the messages the father received were:
“Ima keep talking (expletive) till we take each other to Heaven.”
“Ay I have another picture of your daughter wanna see.”
“I’m gonna rail your daughter when she’s 17.”
“I’ll kill you pussy.”
Some of the messages the girl received were:
“me next me next((;”
“Why your so (expletive) ugly”
“Member. No amount of cake can fix that retard overbite durrer”
On Feb. 12, the girl’s mother filed for a restraining order against Montoya, which was temporarily granted the same day and amended on Feb. 25. It is in effect until March 25, the date of another hearing.
Because Montoya has not been arrested on the warrant, no court dates have been set.
Domestic battery case dismissed
Montoya was last arrested over a year ago after he allegedly beat his girlfriend. Santa Fe County Sheriff’s deputies arrested him on a warrant charging two counts of battery on a household member and one count each of false imprisonment, interference with communications and larceny between $500 and $2,500 on May 9, 2024.
According to an affidavit for an arrest warrant from Deputy Frederick Trujillo, deputies were sent to an intersection because a woman was walking with a baby and bleeding from her mouth. When Trujillo got there, he saw she was bleeding and had bruising and swelling to the left side of her face.
The woman told deputies that she got into an argument with Montoya the previous day when she took him lunch and he started arguing with her about it, grabbed her by the hair and threw her to the ground. She went to her mother’s house and then back to the home they shared the following day, when Montoya allegedly threw a shoe at her back. When she tried to run to her car, he grabbed her by the hair and slammed her face into the center console before throwing her out of the car by her hair and driving off with her cell phone, Trujillo wrote.
First Judicial District Attorney’s Office prosecutor Maya Robnett dismissed the charges on June 20, 2024, “pending further investigation.” Charges can be brought again within two years from when the incident happened. That deadline is May 8, 2026.