S.F. deputy charged with domestic violence
Officer accused in assault on girlfriend
A Santa Fe County sheriff’s deputy was arrested and charged with felony domestic violence charges in Albuquerque last week, according to a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court.
Police say early Friday morning they were called to an apartment on Coors near Paseo Del Norte NW by a woman who said her boyfriend, Christopher Gonzales, 26, had choked and hit her.
Gonzales, who was hired as a deputy last July, has been fired, according to a spokesman for the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office on Monday.
“His employment was terminated based on the incident in Albuquerque and the charges that were filed,” Juan Rios said.
Gonzales is charged with aggravated battery on a household member and false imprisonment and was booked into jail on Friday. He was released Saturday.
His girlfriend told police the couple had gone to a bar Thursday evening and Gonzales became angry with her and wanted to leave.
Later that night, the girlfriend said Gonzales arrived at their apartment and told her he wasn’t going to hit her, according to the complaint. She said she let him inside but then he pushed her to the ground, straddled her and started to choke her until she could not breathe.
When he let her up, she said she called 911 and her mother.
Gonzales had left the house before police arrived and had
taken his gun belt from the living room “because he did not want officers responding to know he was an officer,” according to the complaint.
Gonzales had also been hired as a cadet at the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office in June of 2016, but was fired from the academy in November 2016 for not passing the survival skills classes, according to a BCSO spokeswoman.