A Medanales woman is wanted on a bench warrant after she failed to appear at a hearing where pretrial supervision officers were asking for a hearing for her non-compliance.
Jenine Ocaña, 34, is facing seven felonies in relation to allegedly burglarizing a house. She was initially arrested on June 22, after a homeowner called police and said a woman was in her home, and she was watching her via a surveillance camera.
Court records list her residences as both the home she allegedly burglarized in Española and a house in Medanales.
She was released on pretrial supervision the next day by Rio Arriba Magistrate Judge Joseph Madrid, who then issued a bench warrant for her arrest on July 16, after she failed to appear for a conditions of release hearing. Pretrial supervision officers requested the hearing because she never reported to them as required, and the phone number she gave them didn’t work. The warrant was not entered into the court record.
Española City Police Officer Andrew O’Hara wrote in a criminal complaint for Ocaña’s arrest that he was sent at 9:16 a.m. June 22, to Calle Loma for a breaking and entering in progress. The homeowner told dispatchers she was remotely watching a woman in black take the keys to her truck, drive off, hit a fence, then return to the house.
When officers arrived, the front and outside security doors were open and a woman dressed in black was leaving through the front door, holding several things. O’Hara told her to put them down and put her hands in the air. She complied and said it was her mother’s house. O’Hara handcuffed her, after she tensed as he pulled her arm back, resulting in a resisting arrest charge, O’Hara wrote.
She was carrying a PlayStation 5, an Apple TV, keys to the truck, keys to a cellphone store and TV remotes, he wrote.
The woman said her name was Kristian, but couldn’t give her Social Security number. He then walked back to the house and saw a neighbor, who was on the phone with the homeowner, Lorraine Archuleta. He asked her if Kristian has permission to be at the house, O’Hara wrote.
“Lorraine stated, ‘Yes, but she’s right next to me,’” he wrote.
O’Hara went back to the police car and told Ocaña to tell him what her real name is, he wrote.
Archuleta told O’Hara that Ocaña went into the house, took her keys to the truck and drove out of the driveway, hit the gate and dented the truck, he wrote.
When he walked through the house, he found the bathroom window was broken and items were broken off of the bathroom wall under the window, and he surmised that she got in through the bathroom window.
It is unclear what Ocaña’s relationship to the homeowner and the daughter she claimed to be is.
Ocaña is charged with two counts of criminal damage to property over $1,000, two counts of residential burglary and one count each of unlawful taking a vehicle, larceny over $500, resisting arrest, concealing identity and burglary of a vehicle.
She was charged with misdemeanor battery in 2024 and the case was dismissed when it came to trial.
She was charged with burglary of a vehicle and larceny under $250 in 2022. That case was dismissed by prosecutors in 2024.