Woman charged with child abuse following road rage incident
An apparent case of road rage at a busy Las Vegas intersection led to an Albuquerque woman being charged with six counts of child abuse.
Jennifer T. Montaño, 33, of Albuquerque, was booked into the San Miguel County Detention Center Oct. 5, charged with six felony counts of abuse of a child not resulting in death or bodily harm, a misdemeanor count of resisting an officer and a misdemeanor count of reckless driving.
According to a statement of probable cause filed in San Miguel Magistrate Court, around 6:40 p.m. on Oct. 5, a woman called LVPD dispatch to report that as she was driving, with her three children as passengers, a white Chevrolet Malibu had tried to hit her vehicle. The woman told police that the Malibu began following her on Mills Avenue, and continued to follow her as she turned onto 7th Street. She said the Malibu attempted to hit her soon after she turned onto 7th Street.
Police located a white Malibu driving north on 7th Street, and pulled the vehicle over north of Legion Drive.
Montaño was driving the car, and she too had three juvenile passengers in her car. At least one of the passengers was her daughter, and according to police, Montaño was acting “irate” and refused to provide officers with the girl’s full name.
Montaño told police that the other woman had tried to run her off the road, that the other woman had attempted to hit her vehicle while they were traveling on Mills and she said that the people in the other car were flipping them off and yelling things at them.
The driver of the other vehicle denies that anyone in her car yelled anything at the Malibu or made any kind of hand gestures.
A witness told police she saw the white Malibu change lanes and nearly hit the other car, and that the other car had to abruptly change lanes to avoid being hit by the Malibu.
According to police, when officers arrested Montaño, she struggled with officers and yelled obscenities at them as they attempted to place her into a police vehicle.
At an Oct. 7 hearing in Magistrate Court, Judge Christian Montaño (no known relation) set bond for Jennifer Montaño at $1,000, and ordered that she not leave the state. Montaño was released from SMCDC Oct. 7, and she is scheduled to appear in Magistrate Court Oct. 17 for an arraignment hearing.
