ALAMOGORDO, N.M. \u2014 An El Paso, Texas man is wanted on a nationwide warrant charging him with second-degree criminal sexual penetration after he allegedly drugged and raped a woman at the Inn of the Mountain Gods on the Mescalero Apache Reservation.<\/p>\n
Danny Rivera, 24, is wanted on the warrant, which was signed Aug. 12. He is charged with second-degree criminal sexual penetration resulting in personal injury and distribution of flunitrazepam, a benzodiazepine commonly associated with date rape.<\/p>\n
New Mexico State Police Investigator Edward Garcia wrote in court documents that he enlisted the help of the FBI to identify Rivera from a selfie the victim allegedly took with him before the June 7 incident. Rivera was subsequently identified by the people he was sharing a hotel room with, his cousin and aunt, Garcia wrote.<\/p>\n
The allegations<\/p>\n
According to the woman’s account detailed in court documents, she and a male friend went to the Inn of the Mountain Gods together, but she went to “The Game Room” alone, where she began talking to a man standing next to a casino machine watching another man play. She told him her 65-year-old boyfriend had ditched her, Garcia wrote.<\/p>\n
The two went from the gaming room to a bar, and she took a selfie with the man while walking in a hallway at 10:03 p.m. \u2014 her last memory before waking up in the hospital attached to an IV line, Garcia wrote.<\/p>\n
Her friend told investigators he had called her phone and a man with a Spanish accent answered, telling him to come get her and stating, in vulgar terms, that she had been sexually assaulted, Garcia wrote. When the friend called again later, a nurse answered. He went to the hospital and stayed with the woman until she was released.<\/p>\n
Security footage<\/p>\n
Garcia obtained security footage from the hotel and casino. Through the footage, he tracked the woman’s movement from the gaming room to the bar with a man, then to an elevator, where she was having difficulty walking, Garcia wrote.<\/p>\n
The footage showed her getting off the elevator on the seventh floor and going into a room with the man at 10:06 p.m. At 11:01 p.m., the man was seen carrying and dragging her out of the room, Garcia wrote.<\/p>\n
The footage then showed her getting into the elevator with the man, who dragged her down part of a fourth-floor hallway before dropping her and walking away. A maid found her and radioed for help, Garcia wrote.<\/p>\n
The evidence<\/p>\n
A sexual assault examination nurse wrote in her report that the woman had vaginal bruising. At the hospital, a urine sample tested positive for benzodiazepine, a painkiller and sedative the woman said she did not take, Garcia wrote.<\/p>\n
The woman was also covered in bruises on her biceps, left knee, both inner thighs and her left outer thigh, Garcia wrote.<\/p>\n
A DNA report found the woman’s dress tested positive for male DNA, according to court documents.<\/p>\n
Rivera went to the El Paso Police Department on July 13 for an interview, where he declined to give a statement and asked for an attorney.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information on Rivera’s whereabouts is asked to contact New Mexico State Police, this is an ongoing investigation with an active nationwide warrant issued.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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