34-year-old man faces juvenile sexual assault charges
Ruben Dario Gonzalesis in custody at Metropolitan Detention Center, also charged with kidnapping.
Ruben Dario Gonzalez, 34, was arrested Sunday and booked into the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center after an investigation into the kidnapping and sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl, a New Mexico State Police news release said.The girl was reported missing by her family on Saturday night, and early Sunday, Albuquerque Police Department officers responded to a call from a gas station where the girl reported she had been kidnapped. She told officers that she’d been able to escape from the suspect and ask for help after he’d let her use the restroom, the release said.Given information about the suspects’ vehicle when they arrived, the police pursued the suspect and apprehended him.The suspect, identified as Ruben Dario Gonzalez, told agents that he was a DoorDash driver, had seen that the victim appeared to be upset, and offered her a ride home. Agents said he told them he thought she was 21 years old and said the sex was consensual.In fact, the girl told the agents she was near her home when Gonzalez approached her and said he was an Uber driver sent by her father and threatened to kill her if she didn’t get into his vehicle. He drove them to a secluded area, where he told her to smoke marijuana, then allegedly sexually assaulted her in the car’s back seat. After that, she said he drove to another location and allegedly sexually assaulted her again.Gonzalez is charged with kidnapping in the first degree, criminal sexual penetration in the second degree (child 13-18 years old), and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Ruben Dario Gonzalez, 34, was arrested Sunday and booked into the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center after an investigation into the kidnapping and sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl, a New Mexico State Police news release said.
The girl was reported missing by her family on Saturday night, and early Sunday, Albuquerque Police Department officers responded to a call from a gas station where the girl reported she had been kidnapped. She told officers that she’d been able to escape from the suspect and ask for help after he’d let her use the restroom, the release said.
Given information about the suspects’ vehicle when they arrived, the police pursued the suspect and apprehended him.
The suspect, identified as Ruben Dario Gonzalez, told agents that he was a DoorDash driver, had seen that the victim appeared to be upset, and offered her a ride home. Agents said he told them he thought she was 21 years old and said the sex was consensual.
In fact, the girl told the agents she was near her home when Gonzalez approached her and said he was an Uber driver sent by her father and threatened to kill her if she didn’t get into his vehicle. He drove them to a secluded area, where he told her to smoke marijuana, then allegedly sexually assaulted her in the car’s back seat. After that, she said he drove to another location and allegedly sexually assaulted her again.
Gonzalez is charged with kidnapping in the first degree, criminal sexual penetration in the second degree (child 13-18 years old), and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
