Prosecutors dismissed a felony charge against a restaurant owner accused by a New Mexico State Police officer of deleting surveillance footage that had been the subject of a subpoena in a liquor law violation investigation.

Prosecutor Kent Wahlquist dismissed the charges Jan. 14, of obstruction of the administration of the Liquor Control Act without prejudice against Siomara Vasquez-Quintana, 48, of Cuyamungue, the owner of the Tacos Y Salsa restaurant.

That means the charges could be brought again if they were presented to a grand jury. The boilerplate dismissal lists no reason.

The fourth degree felony charge carried a maximum sentence of 18 months.

State Police Officer Annabelle Gasca filed the charges on Nov. 13, seven months after she initially requested the surveillance footage. That request was part of an investigation in which the restaurant was allegedly being run as a bar on April 12.

Gasca wrote that she served Quintana-Vasquez with the subpoena for the footage on April 25, asking for the surveillance footage from the restaurant for April 5 and April 12. When she received the requested documents, the footage from the bar from April 5 was there, but the footage for the bar from April 12, a week later, was missing.

A different State Police officer went to the bar on April 12 and saw, as evidence by body camera footage, staff serving alcoholic drinks “all over the premises and acting as a bar,” she wrote in a criminal complaint.

The charges were dismissed at a status conference in the case.

According to the charges against Quintana-Vasquez, it is a crime to “forcibly or by bribe, threat or other corrupt practice obstructs, impedes or attempts to obstruct the administration of the provisions of the Liquor Control Act.”