The charging documents were filed on March 2 in Farmington Magistrate Court.
Sotelo was released on March 3 from the county jail and Richardson remains incarcerated.
FARMINGTON Two men have been arrested in connection with a violent burglary reported in a Farmington hotel during which one man is accused of putting a female employee in a choke hold, and also of stealing breakfast cereal.
Joshua Richardson and Jose Sotelo Jr., both 30-years-old and from Farmington, are accused of working together to attack a Baymont by Wyndham Farmington employee on the night of Dec. 3, according to court documents.
The defendants face a second-degree felony count of aggravated burglary and a third-degree felony count of conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary, according to the criminal complaint.