New Mexico State Police officers charged an Albuquerque man with multiple counts of child rape after he allegedly admitted to meeting up with a 14-year-old girl in Chimayó.

Agent Daniel Martinez charged Justin Chavez, 31, with two counts of fourth degree rape of a child aged 13 to 16 and one count each of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and child solicitation by electronic communication device.

Martinez filed for and received the warrant on Jan. 22 and Chavez was arrested the same day. Rio Arriba Magistrate Judge Joseph Madrid released him on his own recognizance a day later and a status conference is set for Feb. 18.

Martinez wrote that a State Police officer was called to investigate on Dec. 15 by the 14-year-old girl’s parents. They said they “accessed” her phone and found she was communicating with four men, including Chavez.

“These interactions included the males sending inappropriate videos, nude pictures, and conversations in which (the victim) referred to the man as ‘Daddy’ and responded to phrases such as ‘If I am their good little girl,’” Martinez wrote.

Chavez denied sending her inappropriate messages and the victim also denied sending those kinds of messages, he wrote.

The girl’s father told the officer that one man was located in Española, another in Albuquerque and two out of state. The one in Albuquerque, Chavez, had picked her up from the house at least twice, according to his knowledge, Martinez wrote.

The girl was then interviewed by a forensic interviewer in a “safe house” interview. She described her conversations with Chavez as “dry” and said he never asked for videos or pictures.

She said she hung out with him between September and October 2025 and he would pick her up down the road, away from her house.

They would then drive down the road to a park in Chimayó and talk, hold hands, sit in the back seat of his car and cuddle and watch Netflix on his phone, Martinez wrote.

“(The victim) said they never drove anywhere else and that her parents didn’t know she was with Justin,” he wrote. “(The victim) described several conversations, including one in which Justin asked her for a kiss.”

During one incident, he tried kissing her, she pushed him away, he tried again and she “gave in and started making out” and then he allegedly placed his hand under her pants and molested her and she pushed his hand away and they continued watching the movie, he wrote.

During another time, after the first incident, the same thing happened “in the same way as the first,” he wrote.

“(The victim) said she hung out with Justin a few more times after the second incident occurred and finally blocked him from Snapchat because she felt he was very ugly and didn’t want to be associated with him,” Martinez wrote.

He knew how old she was because she told him and he told her how old he is, Martinez wrote.

Martinez interviewed Chavez on Dec. 22 and he said he was communicating with the girl for one to two months and he picked her up from her house twice and they would go to a park in Chimayó in his Honda Civic, Martinez wrote.

Chavez told Martinez that he stopped talking to her as soon as he learned her age and he thought she was 18. He said he tried to kiss the girl but was unaware of her age at the time and “when further questioned” he didn’t recall if they kissed, then said that they did kiss, Martinez wrote.

“Justin denied anything further occurring and denied putting his hands down (the victim’s) pants,” Martinez wrote. “Justin then concluded speaking.”

When detectives looked at the messages between the two, there were 260 calls between them and 2,835 messages, including an interaction on July 19, where Chavez repeatedly guessed her age before guessing 14 and well before the alleged instances of molestation, Martinez wrote.

They (Chavez and the girl) would then drive down the road to a park in Chimayó and talk, hold hands, sit in the back seat of his car and cuddle and watch Netflix on his phone.

NMSP Agent Daniel Martinez

in his report