LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A suspected drunk driver’s report of a sexual assault led New Mexico State Police to arrest a fugitive with nationwide warrants during a tactical operation in Las Cruces Friday.<\/p>\n
The incident began Thursday when a State Police officer arrested a 43-year-old woman for aggravated DWI and fleeing the scene of a crash on I-25 near Socorro.<\/p>\n
At the hospital for a blood draw, the woman told police she had been sexually assaulted earlier that day by her ex-boyfriend, Brian Smolak, 43.<\/p>\n
Investigators determined the alleged assault occurred in Las Cruces and learned Smolak was a fugitive with two nationwide extraditable warrants from Arizona, including one for aggravated assault on a peace officer.<\/p>\n
After locating Smolak at a Las Cruces motel, the NMSP Fugitive Apprehension Unit and Tactical Team executed a search warrant and took him into custody.<\/p>\n
Smolak remains held on his active warrants and may face additional charges. NMSP says the investigation continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A suspected drunk driver’s report of a sexual assault led New Mexico State…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-70756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}