Serving the High Plains
Serving the High Plains
A Logan man was jailed last week on a felony complaint after he was accused of dragging a woman by the hair, throwing her down a set of stairs and kicking her.
Santiago Romero, 24, was booked into the Quay County Detention Center on a complaint of aggravated battery on a household member that caused great bodily harm. The complaint is a third-degree felony can lead up to three years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
According to a complaint filed in Tucumcari magistrate court by Logan police officer Wade Strand, the woman told the officer her brother from Texas was visiting May 19 at her home and had left to return to work the next day. A few minutes later, she heard a knock on the door and went to unlock it, thinking it was her brother. Instead, it was Romero trying to gain access to the house.
The woman tried to dial 911 but was unable to do so before Romero grabbed her hair and dragged her through the living room, kitchen and dining room. Once outside, the woman said Romero threw her down a flight of stairs. She said she tried to get up but kicked her back to the ground.
She tried to dial 911 again, Romero heard the dispatcher and left the residence in his vehicle.
The woman told the officer an infant was in the crib during the attack and that she was “afraid for my life.”
“I asked her what she meant and she said, ‘I’m afraid that Santiago will kill me,’” Strand wrote in his report.
She told the officer Romero had used alcohol, methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin.
The officer stated in his complaint he saw a laceration to the woman’s right ankle, abrasions on both arms and complained her head was hurting, though she refused hospitalization. Strand wrote he found a wad of black hair in the living room matching the woman’s and found her eyeglasses on the ground about 12 feet from the home’s porch.
The woman and her children were taken to a safe location, Strand wrote. Romero was booked into the county jail the next day. Romero had no attorney listed in online court records.