Mary Rousseau (MDC)
Nathan Tapia (MDC)ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A judge decided to detain a couple accused of shoplifting and threatening store employees with a gun in separate incidents around Albuquerque this year.
Mary Rousseau, 39, and Nathan Tapia, 29, are each charged with two counts of armed robbery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, shooting at or from a motor vehicle and conspiracy charges in two separate incidents in February and April. Rousseau is also charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Prosecutors wrote in a pretrial detention motion that the couple “escalated a simple theft to a violent, armed confrontation” and Rousseau — who allegedly fired at employees in one instance — “greatly increased the potential for death or great bodily harm to occur.”