Despite denying knowing anything about the truck he was driving being stolen, a Velarde man is facing a fourth-degree felony for receiving or transferring a stolen motor vehicle.
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   A missing cell phone prompted a Ranchitos woman to hold several house guests at knife-point until the phone was returned, according to a man who escaped.
   Española Police Department Sgt. Cody Martinez responded at 5:50 a.m., Dec. 29 to a call from on unidentified person who had been texted that his friend Tomas Albor had been held hostage but escaped through a bedroom window from a house behind Big 5.
   Martinez met Albor behind Big 5. He said his vehicle was parked in front of the residence on East Jiron Street.
   Albor said he was at the home of Julie Wyman and while there Melinda Trujillo said her cell phone was gone and no one was leaving until she got it back. She barricaded the door and brandished a knife.