Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office District 7 substation based in Fountain Hills reported that deputies responded to the following calls during the week from Thursday, Dec. 28, to Wednesday, Jan. …
The Maricopa County Sheriff s Office District 7 substation in Fountain Hills reported deputies responded to the following calls during the week from Thursday, July 14, through Wednesday, July 20.
Investigators said the abuse began Thursday evening and lasted through much of the night.
The victim surreptitiously slipped the note to one of her two elementary school children, with instructions to pass it on to the bus driver, Trujillo said.
Alvarado is accused of threatening to kill the woman and trying to suffocate her with a pillow and then a shirt. Investigators also allege that he took her cellphone to prevent her from calling for help, Trujillo said.
The abuse may have occurred in the presence of two schoolchildren as well as a toddler, Trujillo said.
Van Wamel, the contract manager for the STS bus service for the Las Cruces Public Schools, said the driver who alerted police worked for the company for about four years. The two children, he said, are students at Jornada Elementary School.
Children pass note warning mother in danger to school bus driver, police say From Staff Reports
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LAS CRUCES – A Las Cruces woman asked her children to give their school bus driver a note stating she was in danger, police stated in a news release.
The bus driver called 911 the morning of Friday, April 23, and Las Cruces police officers arrived at a home on 4000 block of Inca Avenue to find a woman with multiple cuts, bruises and abrasions.
Police located the woman s boyfriend, Erik Alvarado, later Friday and detained him for questioning. Alvarado has since been charged with three third-degree felony counts of aggravated battery against a household member. Alvarado also faces misdemeanor counts of battery against a household member and deprivation of property.