A Chamita man was arrested on a warrant charging him with felony child abuse and two misdemeanors after he allegedly punched a wall, the window of a car with two children inside, lunged at his partner and threatened to burn their house down.
Brandon Trujillo, 35, was arrested on the warrant on May 27, the same day it was filed, and four days after the incident was reported to Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies.
Deputy Cameron Chavez filed for the arrest warrant on charges of child abuse, criminal damage to property under $1,000 and assault against a household member.
In an affidavit for an arrest warrant, Chavez wrote that he was sent to a house in Chamita for a domestic violence incident on May 23. There, he met with the victim who said she and her fiancé, Trujillo, has been arguing and she had already left. He was being “aggressive” toward her, calling her lazy, complaining about her watching his son and yelling about laundry that wasn’t done.
“(The victim) then stated Brandon had punched a hole in the living room wall inside the house,” Chavez wrote.
The incident came as Trujillo had been drinking more and more, he was drunk at the time, and has been drinking more since he started using less marijuana, he wrote.
“(The victim) stated that the incident had started in the bedroom and had moved and escalated in the living room, where Brandon had thrown a shirt at her,” Chavez wrote. “(The victim) stated she grabbed and swung the shirt at Brandon, hitting him. (The victim) stated that as Brandon was walking away, he turned around and lunged towards her with a closed fist.”
She feared being hit by him, he wrote.
The officers then went into the house, documented the damage, and talked to her 13-year-old daughter who said she and her little brother, Trujillo’s 4-year-old son, were inside when the argument started.
She grabbed her brother, went to their mom’s car outside, put the little brother in the back with his car seat, and then Trujillo came up yelling, punching the passenger window where the girl was sitting. She told the deputy she was afraid he was going to hit them.
The victim said Trujillo said he was going to “come back and burn the house down,” he wrote.
Los Alamos Magistrate Judge Catherine Taylor released Trujillo on his own recognizance. A status hearing is set for the end of the month.