Española City Police officers arrested a Chama man on a warrant for burglary after National Guard members called him in as a suspicious person because he was sitting at Valdez Park with knives in front of him on a park table.
Española Police Officer Shaun Olson wrote in an incident report that he was sent to the park to arrest Richard Vigil, 34, who might have a warrant for his arrest.
National Guard members told him Vigil ran onto Railroad Avenue and Olson spotted him, followed him and arrested him on Nov. 18, on the south side of 123 North Railroad Avenue, the former Rio Grande SUN building.
Vigil was wanted on a warrant for charges of breaking and entering, burglary, criminal trespass and disorderly conduct from an incident on Feb. 13, New Mexico State Police Officer Jose Martinez wrote in an affidavit for an arrest warrant.
Martinez wrote that he was sent to a case of a burglary in progress in Chama.
The victim said her son broke into her house through a window, but left prior to Martinez arriving. At the scene, he saw broken glass.
The victim told him she was asleep in her bedroom when she heard banging on her door for five minutes, then a knock on her bedroom window and saw Vigil outside.
She didn’t want him in the house and didn’t open the door so he started kicking it.
She locked herself in her bedroom and he threw a rock through the window and jumped into the house, then started trying to kick her bedroom door down.
She told officers he goes to his sister’s house when she doesn’t allow him to be there, Martinez wrote.
He wasn’t allowed to be there after being trespassed by the “Housing Authority personnel.”
Officers tried to find him in Chama, but couldn’t, leading to the arrest warrant issued the same day as the incident.
However, he was arrested on the warrant later that day. He appears to have been initially released, then ordered to be held in February, before he was found competent and ordered to be released in September.
He was put on house arrest and then a bench warrant, for his failure to appear for a status conference on Nov. 12, was issued, resulting in his Nov. 18 arrest.
He waived a preliminary hearing on Dec. 3 on the conditions that he participate in the assisted outpatient treatment, or AOT program, and that his charges be dismissed when he successfully completes the program.
Prosecutors bound the case over on Dec. 8.