By Wheeler Cowperthwaite
Special to the SUN

Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a mother and daughter after the daughter came home to find her mother and her underage girlfriend drunk and having sex, which led to multiple fights.

Deputies charged mother Joni Gomez, 37, of El Guique, with three counts of resisting arrest, two counts of battery on an officer and one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, on March 19.

Deputies charged daughter Indika Trujillo, 18, with one count of aggravated battery of a household member. Prosecutors dismissed the case against her on April 8, while the case against her mother is ongoing.

Deputy Hansel Felix wrote in a statement of probable cause for Trujillo’s arrest that she called 911 and told dispatchers she walked in on her mother having sex with her underage girlfriend. When he got there, he rushed to the camper trailer on the property, as he was told there as an active fight at the scene.

Deputies separated Trujillo and Gomez and the latter tried to barricade herself in the trailer. The underage girlfriend fled and was apprehended and put in the back of a patrol car. The girlfriend and Gomez were both drunk, Felix wrote.

“Trujillo stated that when she had arrived home from work with her family, and as she approached the trailer, she could hear sexual sounds coming from the bedroom,” Felix wrote.

When Trujillo entered the trailer, she saw her mother on top of her girlfriend, who had her pants down, he wrote.

“Trujillo stated she then beat up her mother because she was raping her girlfriend and stated Gomez provided the alcohol, which is why both Gomez and (the girlfriend) were drunk,” Felix wrote.

The girlfriend was “not cooperative,” said nothing happened and that they were both just drunk in bed, he wrote.

Shortly after the girlfriend’s mother arrived, she ran away, Felix wrote.

Trujillo later told deputies she punched Gomez several times in the face and kicked her in the face and stomach. Gomez “sustained moderate injuries to her face, along with a laceration to her right eyebrow,” Felix wrote.

Deputy Joey Graves wrote that they brought the two women to the hospital to be cleared for incarceration and there, Gomez “became aggressive” and tried to spit in his face, but it didn’t work because they put a spit mask on her prior to entering. She also allegedly bit his right wrist.

Felix wrote that Gomez “had to be restrained as she became defiant and flailed several times” and deputies put her in a wheelchair.

Rio Arriba Magistrate Judge Alexandra Naranjo released Gomez on her own recognizance and ordered her to be placed on electronic monitoring before her release.

A status conference in the case is set for later this week.