An Española woman is facing a felony charge of battery on a peace officer after she allegedly fought with police officers arresting her for punching her boyfriend in the face.
Española City Police Sgt. Anthony Martinez arrested Alexandra Garcia, 18, on June 15 on charges of battery against a household member, battery on a peace officer, resisting arrest and criminal damage to property. All the charges, except battery on a peace officer, are misdemeanors.
Martinez wrote in a criminal complaint for Garcia’s arrest that he was originally sent to a house on West Calle Rosario for a domestic disturbance and the 911 caller said she and her boyfriend started hitting each other.
When he got there, Martinez and another officer met with Garcia and another woman sitting in a car outside the house. She told them that she called 911 because she and her boyfriend got into an argument over him having some of her property that she wanted back, Martinez wrote.
When asked if things got physical, she said they hit each other, he wrote.
“When I asked how the fight occurred, she told me that every time they get in a argument, her boyfriend gets her phone and she punched him in the face with a closed fist,” Martinez wrote.
Martinez then went in the house and spoke to the boyfriend, 17, who had a bleeding cut under his right eye and a scratch near his right cheek. He was hesitant to talk but eventually told Martinez that they argued and fought but “they just needed to talk it out,” Martinez wrote.
“Once, I explained to (the victim) that Alexandra was going to be placed under arrest, he told me that he didn’t want her to go to jail and that he started the fight and all they needed to do was talk about it,” he wrote.
As he left the house, Garcia walked away from the other officer and Martinez called after her to stop, but she kept walking, entered the house and closed the door on Martinez. He was able to open the door and followed her in. She ran toward the victim but Martinez grabbed her by the wrist. She allegedly tried to bite his hand and push him away while swinging her arms toward him. She then ran into the next room and continued to pull away from his grasp and he threatened to shoot her with a stun gun, Martinez wrote.
Once he put her in his patrol car, she allegedly pulled the interior door handle off the car, he wrote.
The victim refused to have his injuries photographed, he wrote.
Martinez took Garcia to the Española Hospital to be checked before being booked and there, she was put in a holding room and she threw an unsealed water bottle at the door. When Martinez opened the door to remove the bottle, she kicked it at him, “causing it to strike me and bust open causing water to go all over my uniform and face,” he wrote.
A status conference is set for later this month. Rio Arriba Magistrate Judge Joseph Madrid released her on her own recognizance and ordered her to avoid all contact with the victim or anyone who may testify in the case, according to online court dockets.