SUN Staff Report

A 61-year-old Medanales woman was charged with aggravated DWI, first offense and driving while license revoked, DWI related, after she fell off her three-wheeled motorcycle.

Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s Deputy John Greene wrote in his incident report that he was dispatched on March 20 to State Road 554 in Medanales because someone reported a motorcycle wreck. The caller said a drunk woman wrecked and was lying on the ground and couldn’t get up.

When Greene arrived, he spoke with the woman, later identified as Borrego, who said she and her husband got into an argument and she decided to go for a drive, the report said. She was riding a 2024 Harley-Davidson motorcycle and told the deputy she was going 10 mph when she fell off of it.

“Ms. Borrego stated she had been drinking about three hours earlier,” Greene wrote. “I observed two open containers on the motorcycle. There was one empty bottle Tito’s (sic), and a half full 100ml bottle of Jose Cuervo.”

He wrote that he could smell liquor on Borrego’s breath and noticed slurred speech.

Deputy Nicholas Diaz, who also responded to the motorcycle crash, wrote in his supplemental report that he asked Borrego for her driver’s license or identification card and she told him to check the trunk of her motorcycle. When he opened the trunk, he found the open container of Jose Cuervo tequila and on the ground, near Borrego, he saw a small bottle of Tito’s vodka that had a broken seal and was empty.

“The female was clearly intoxicated, as she was slurring her speech, her eyes were bloodshot and watery, and I could smell the odor of intoxicating beverages emitting from her,” Diaz wrote.

Greene took over the investigation from Diaz and Deputy Hansel Felix, who also arrived on scene told Diaz he recognized Borrego because he arrested her in the past for driving while intoxicated, Diaz’s report said.

Greene read Borrego the New Mexico Implied Consent Advisory for a blood draw, but she did not agree to it. Medics transported her to the Española Hospital and a blood draw warrant was drafted and submitted to Rio Arriba Magistrate Judge Alexandra Naranjo, who approved it.

“Mrs. Borrego was not medically cleared for incarceration and will be summonsed for Aggravated DWI as well as Driving while license revoked (DWI related),” Green wrote. “A crash report was not completed due to there not being a wreck that happened. Mrs. Borrego just slid off the motorcycle when it stopped.”

Naranjo is scheduled to arraign Borrego on April 20, according to court documents.