ESPAÑOLA, N.M. (KRQE) – An officer saw her nearly blow through a stop sign in northern New Mexico. The new video shows the traffic stop that followed was anything but normal. It ended with the suspect ramming police and officers fining a loaded gun on the drive. On September 10, suspect Isabella Sanchez rammed into an […]
ESPAÑOLA, N.M. (KRQE) – An officer saw her nearly blow through a stop sign in northern New Mexico. The new video shows the traffic stop that followed was anything but normal. It ended with the suspect ramming police and officers fining a loaded gun on the drive.
On September 10, suspect Isabella Sanchez rammed into an Española officer trying to get away but ended up disabling her vehicle. It all unfolded after Sanchez tried to take off from a traffic stop.
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As police body cameras were recording, Sanchez admitted to officers that she uses fentanyl. One office confronted the suspect accusing her of having a gun in her hand. However, Sanchez tried to tell them a different story.
Officer: “You went reaching for a gun.”
Sanchez: “No.”
Officer: “Are you f****** kidding me?”
Sanchez: “It fell out of my pants. “
Officer: “She saw my unit.”
Officer: “Loaded one in the chamber.”
Police searched Sanchez’s car which took out a fence and a concrete wall. The officer then asked her if she knew what she was doing.
Officer: “Why did you run? Do you have a warrant? For What?”
Sanchez: “Failure to appear.”
Officer: “So you have a warrant for failure to appear and you just thought it was okay to run off and slam into my unit.”
Sanchez: “No, I am sorry.”
Officer: “What happens if you hit somebody when you ran from me the first time or what if you hurt me?”
Sanchez: “I would have been ****ed.”
Isabella Sanchez is now facing charges including aggravated battery on a police officer, reckless driving, and two counts of injuring a fence. Sanchez is scheduled for a pre-trial detention hearing on Monday.