Warrant: Intruders took $600 from man on dialysis
Home invasion might be tied to drug dealer, court document says
A Santa Fe man lived through a nightmare earlier this month when intruders barged into his home on a Sunday morning, stole cash he had on hand to pay bills and broke his eye socket, according to a search warrant filed in the state District Court in Santa Fe.
The man told Santa Fe police he had been lying in bed, undergoing an allnight dialysis treatment, when three men in disguise entered his San Ignacio Road apartment Nov. 4.
The assailants pistol-whipped the victim, tied up his roommate and stole $600.
Officers are still investigating the apartment invasion, Santa Fe police spokesman Greg Gurulé said last week, and while they have identified suspects, they have not yet arrested anyone.
The New Mexican is not using the names of the man on dialysis and other residents because they could not be reached for comment on the incident. The newspaper generally does not publish the names of crime victims unless they agree to an interview.
According to the search warrant, police went to the San Isidro Apartments after receiving a call about a burglary in progress.
A man identified as the “primary resident” of the home told detectives he had been in bed undergoing dialysis when the intruders — armed with guns and dressed in black, with hoods and sunglasses — burst into the dwelling. One of the men came into his room, the resident told police, pointed a gun at him and demanded money.
The resident told police he had taken funds out of his bank account the day before to pay bills and gave the intruders $600. But the men demanded more. At some point, an aggressive intruder hit the resident in the face with a pistol, breaking his eye socket, the search warrant says.
Another intruder approached a roommate who was sleeping on a mattress in the living room, pressed a
shotgun to his head and tied up his hands, the roommate told police.
The search warrant says one of the intruders then warned the others that police were on their way, and the men left the apartment.
During the investigation, the document says, police learned a third roommate knew the primary resident had cash in the home because that person had earlier taken him to the bank.
The primary resident told police he suspected the boyfriend of that roommate might be involved in the altercation. The boyfriend is a drug user, he said.
But when the boyfriend later showed up at the apartment to check on the residents, police wrote in the warrant, he told officers he had been held at gunpoint, too.
He had left the apartment around 4 a.m. Nov. 4, looking for heroin from his drug dealer, “Mikey,” he said. He fell asleep at Mikey’s place, the boyfriend told officers, and woke up with Mikey and Mikey’s girlfriend pointing a gun at him.
Mikey, aware that one of the residents of the San Isidro apartment had money, took the boyfriend’s keys to the apartment and sent three of his friends there, the boyfriend told police.