Cinco de Mayo ‘brawl’ results in child abuse charges
What should have been a fun celebration of Cinco de Mayo deteriorated into a fight that resulted in three people being charged with felony child abuse.
Elauterio L. Lujan, 38, of Las Vegas, faces one count of third-degree felony child abuse, and one count of misdemeanor aggravated battery. He was booked into the San Miguel County Detention Center May 9, and released the next day on a $2,000 bond.
Chelsa C. Martinez, 25, who moved to Las Vegas from Pine Bluffs, Wyo. less than three months ago, was charged with third-degree felony child abuse, and one count of misdemeanor aggravated battery. She was booked into SMCDC June 3, and released the next day on a $5,000 unsecured bond.
David Anaya, 38, of Albuquerque, faces charges of third-degree felony child abuse, and two counts of misdemeanor aggravated battery.
Police have not yet arrested Anaya, and a warrant has been issued.
Around 8 p.m. on May 5, Las Vegas Police responded to a call about a fight at a home near Legion Drive and Collins Drive. A woman told police three adults had been quarreling, and that she’d asked one of them, Lujan, to leave. The woman told police Lujan then “attacked her,” and that she defended herself by throwing a beer bottle at him. The woman said the bottle did not strike Lujan, but he then tackled her to the ground and hit her “a couple times.” The woman said she then grabbed another beer bottle and hit him with it.
According to an affidavit for arrest filed in San Miguel Magistrate Court, Anaya — identified in court documents as Lujan’s brother — kicked the woman in the face. The woman told police it was “pretty much a brawl at that point.”
She said Anaya then instructed his girlfriend, Martinez, to fight her.
Instead, Martinez began fighting with a juvenile girl. Witnesses say Anaya also called the girl’s mother a “tramp,” and that Anaya punched the girl’s mother in the face.
According to court records, an officer noted the juvenile girl had a red mark near one of her eyes, and that the woman who’d been tackled by Lujan and kicked by Anaya had a detached toenail from the fight, as well as cuts on her body.
Lujan has a lengthy criminal history in New Mexico, including a DWI conviction in 2013, and two DWI convictions in 2015. At the time of his latest arrest, Lujan was out of jail on bond for a pending shoplifting case.
Lujan is scheduled to be arraigned at 9 a.m., July 16, in San Miguel Magistrate Court. Martinez is scheduled to be arraigned at 10 a.m. on July 11, also in San Miguel Magistrate Court. Anaya is being sought on a no-bond warrant.
