A Texas man faces felony expenses after, police say, he battered his girlfriend and drove off in her automobile outdoors a fuel station in Santa Fe.
Santa Fe police arrested Christopher Kenney, 44, at a home in Eldorado Thursday evening, and he was booked into Santa Fe County jail.
Officers have been dispatched at about 5:30 p.m. Thursday to a Chevron fuel station on St. Francis Drive in response to a report of a theft — a lady advised police Kenney had taken off together with her automobile, together with her two canine and purse inside.
The girl advised police she had picked up Kenney from Austin, Texas, in latest days, and the 2 had arrived Wednesday at his mother and father’ residence in Eldorado, based on a possible trigger assertion filed by police. The 2 have been sitting in her automobile outdoors the fuel station Thursday once they started to argue about Kenney’s consuming and he or she advised him to get out of the automobile, she advised officers.
The girl stated Kenney then grabbed her hair and dragged her throughout the middle console of the automobile and out of the passenger-side door, police wrote. She stated he then jumped into the driving force’s seat and sped off in her automobile, “practically operating her over as she moved out of the best way to keep away from being struck,” the assertion says.
Officers discovered the lady’s automobile — and Kenney — at his mother and father’ home in Eldorado, police wrote. Kenney advised police the 2 had argued within the automobile outdoors the fuel station, however that his girlfriend had gotten out of the automobile and he jumped into the driving force’s seat and drove off.
Police famous, nonetheless, the lady had “massive areas of redness and scratches deep sufficient to attract blood” in addition to “a big chunk of hair hanging from one in all [the woman’s] bracelets.”
The girl advised police she didn’t wish to pursue expenses towards Kenney, however officers decided “an arrest was each affordable and vital as a way to defend her from additional home abuse,” police wrote within the assertion.
Kenney faces expenses of theft, aggravated battery with a lethal weapon, battery towards a family member, illegal taking of a motorcar and receiving or transferring stolen motor autos, based on a felony grievance filed Friday in Santa Fe County Justice of the Peace Court docket.
Kenney was scheduled to be arraigned on the fees Friday, however prosecutors requested for the listening to to be delayed to find out whether or not to request for Kenney to be held in jail pending a trial on the fees.