Man faces rape charge

By Jim Tiffin
Cibola County Bureau

GRANTS — Brian Olveda, 22, of 1609 Gabaldon, Grants, has a preliminary hearing set July 17 in connection with charges of one count each of felony criminal sexual penetration, by force or coercion; felony assault against a household member with intent to commit a violent felony and battery against a household member, a misdemeanor.

The hearing is in Cibola County Magistrate Court. If prosecuted and convicted of all charges, Olveda faces up to one day short of seven years in state prison, up to a fine of $11,000, or both.

This is the fourth criminal sexual penetration case this year, about average for this point during any given year, said Grants Police Lt. Corey Allen.

Allen said details about the alleged CSP were revealed after police Officer Kevin Dobbs talked to a woman who was with Dobbs when he was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge at Motel 6 in Grants in June.

Sgt. Gilbert Gonzales and "Cain,"the department's K-9 officer, responded to a call from the motel about someone yelling profanity and creating a disturbance in the lobby, Allen said

Dobbs took Olveda to the Cibola County Detention Center and booked him on the disorderly conduct charge, then returned to the motel to talk to a woman who was part of the incident. She later turned out to be the victim of not only assault and battery, but of the CSP, according to Magistrate Court records.

The victim told Dobbs that she and Olveda had been in an argument earlier in Los Alamitos Heights and she had talked to officers but had not told them of the CSP incident, court records state.

Dobbs then was able to get the woman to tell him of an incident where Olveda forced the woman to get into a car, drove her to a couple of different locations in the city, tore off her underwear and raped her, according to court records.

Olveda had been accusing the woman of cheating on him with another man, Allen said.

At one point in the car, Olveda put a knife to the woman's throat and asked her if she wanted him to kill her. She told him no, court records state.

Olveda stopped the car at an undisclosed location in Grants and told her he was leaving and both got out of the car. When he tried to force her back into the car she began screaming, court records state.

Olveda then drove off and she went to the nearest house and called police about the argument, leaving out the information about the CSP, court records state.

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