A Farmington man was ordered to serve 30 days in the San Juan County Adult Detention Center after entering no-contest pleas to leaving the scene of an accident involving great bodily harm or death and battery against a household member, according to records and notes from a Sept. 21 plea and sentencing hearing.

Ezekiel Angel Jaramillo, 29, entered the pleas Sept. 21 in Eleventh Judicial District Court in San Juan County. Prosecutors agreed to dismiss a third-degree felony charge of aggravated battery against a household member with a deadly weapon as part of the plea agreement.

Before the pleas were accepted, all charges were allegations and Jaramillo was presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law. The court accepted his no-contest pleas to the remaining two counts and adjudicated him guilty on those charges.

The case stems from a Sept. 14, 2025, incident following a birthday gathering at a Farmington residence, according to an affidavit for arrest warrant filed in San Juan County Magistrate Court.

According to the affidavit, police were dispatched to San Juan Regional Medical Center after receiving a report that a woman had been run over by a vehicle. The woman told police she and Jaramillo had been celebrating his birthday with family and guests and that alcohol had been consumed.

The woman told investigators an argument developed after Jaramillo said he wanted to go to bed while she wanted to continue the gathering. According to the affidavit, she alleged Jaramillo pulled her hair while they were on a stairwell inside the residence.

She further told police that Jaramillo later went to his truck with their daughter. According to the affidavit, when the woman went to the driver’s side of the vehicle seeking to get the child back, she alleged Jaramillo got out, grabbed her by the hair and pulled her to the ground.

The affidavit states the woman alleged Jaramillo then got back into the truck and drove over her right arm before leaving. She was later taken to San Juan Regional Medical Center, where police reported she had a broken upper-arm bone. The responding officer also documented other injuries, according to the affidavit.

Police also documented Jaramillo’s account of the confrontation. According to the affidavit, Jaramillo told the officer the argument began after the woman accused him of cheating. He alleged she slapped him and that several women at the gathering later confronted him.

Jaramillo told police he took his daughter to his truck while people were throwing cans at him and the vehicle, according to the affidavit. When the officer asked whether he knew he had run over the woman, Jaramillo denied knowing that had happened and said she had been chasing after him as he left.

During the Sept. 21 plea hearing, prosecutors told District Judge Curtis R. Gurley that the state intended to prove Jaramillo drove a vehicle over the woman’s arm, causing permanent nerve damage. For the battery charge, prosecutors said the state intended to prove he pulled her hair in a rude or insulting manner.

Jaramillo confirmed those were the facts upon which he was relying to enter his no-contest pleas. The court found the pleas were entered knowingly, voluntarily and intelligently before accepting them and adjudicating Jaramillo guilty.

The plea agreement contained no agreement as to sentence. During the hearing, the court advised Jaramillo of the potential penalties before accepting his pleas.

At sentencing, prosecutors told the court the woman did not wish to address the judge directly but reported nerve damage to her arm and scarring on her left foot. Prosecutors conveyed her request that the court impose the full sentence.

Defense counsel told the court the vehicle incident was an accident and said Jaramillo did not know the woman had been run over. The defense also told the court Jaramillo had no prior felony convictions and was employed.

CHARGES AND DISPOSITION

• Leaving the scene of an accident involving great bodily harm or death — fourth-degree felony — no-contest plea accepted; conviction entered.
• Battery against a household member — misdemeanor — no-contest plea accepted; conviction entered.
• Aggravated battery against a household member with a deadly weapon — third-degree felony — dismissed under the plea agreement.

CASE STATUS

According to records and notes from the Sept. 21 plea and sentencing hearing, Judge Gurley imposed 364 days on the misdemeanor battery count and 18 months on the felony leaving-the-scene count, with the sentences ordered to run consecutively. The judge also stated the felony sentence would be followed by one year of parole.

The court ordered Jaramillo to serve 30 days in the San Juan County Adult Detention Center, with one day of presentence confinement credit, suspended the remainder of the incarceration term and placed him on supervised probation for the suspended portion of the sentence.

Jaramillo was ordered to report to the San Juan County Adult Detention Center at 8:30 a.m. Sept. 22 to begin the custodial portion of his sentence.

The court also ordered Jaramillo to have no contact with the woman during probation and complete a 52-week domestic violence program. Other probation conditions announced by the court included life-skills courses, compliance with probation screenings and recommendations, a DNA sample and associated $100 fee, and 30 hours of community service per week if he is unemployed.

SOURCE

This report is based on the affidavit for arrest warrant filed in San Juan County Magistrate Court and records and notes from the Sept. 21, 2026, plea and sentencing hearing in State of New Mexico v. Ezekiel Jaramillo, case No. D-1116-CR-2025-00782. A separate written Judgment and Sentence was not among the records reviewed for this report.

LEGAL DISCLAIMER

All charges were allegations based on court records, and Jaramillo was presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law. On Sept. 21, 2026, the court accepted his no-contest pleas to leaving the scene of an accident involving great bodily harm or death and battery against a household member and adjudicated him guilty on those counts. The aggravated-battery charge was dismissed as part of the plea agreement.