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Ana Reyes
Santa Fe police allege a driver accused of striking and killing a pedestrian early Sunday morning admitted to officers she had used cannabis shortly before the crash.
Ana Reyes of Santa Fe, 22, told police the man had run out in front of her vehicle while she was driving home on Agua Fría Street, investigators wrote in a statement of probable cause filed Monday in Santa Fe County Magistrate Court. She faces a count of vehicular homicide involving intoxication, a second-degree felony, a criminal complaint states.
Investigators have yet to complete the crash investigation and finalize their determinations on the cause of the incident, but officers believe Reyes was high on cannabis when the crash occurred, according to court documents.
Police have not yet identified the man who was killed.
Santa Fe police Deputy Chief Ben Valdez said Monday officers are waiting for an identification from the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator, adding the police department will then notify the man’s next of kin about his death before releasing his name.
Reyes was arrested at the scene of the crash and booked into the Santa Fe County jail Sunday. She remained in jail Monday and was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday on the charge, records show.
An officer wrote in the probable cause statement Reyes’ vehicle was “heavily damaged” when he arrived at the scene, near the intersection of Agua Fría Street and Cottonwood Drive, shortly after 2 a.m. Sunday.
Reyes had called 911 after the crash, police noted, telling dispatchers she was driving eastbound on Agua Fría when someone ran out in front of her vehicle and she ran them over.
She told police at the scene she had seen the man, who was wearing an orange shirt, walking on the sidewalk, and then “all of the sudden she did not see the male walking anymore and that he suddenly appeared in front of her vehicle,” police wrote in the statement.
Reyes told officers she had two beers about three hours before the crash, the statement alleges, noting she also admitted to having smoked “just one hit” of marijuana shortly before driving.
Some details about the crash were still unclear Monday, such as the exact location of the collision, Reyes’ speed at the time of the crash and investigators’ determinations of contributing factors.
Valdez noted crash investigators use 3D scanning to recreate the crash and determine what caused it.
“That determination is still being evaluated,” Valdez said. “Officers scan the whole scene, and once they look at the scan and the measurements they’ll be able to make a determination of where the impact occurred and what the contributing factors were.”
Officers documented the series of seven field sobriety tests performed on Reyes at the scene as well as various “clues” of intoxication they observed. An officer wrote the tests indicated Reyes was “impaired on marijuana.”
“As I went to visually inspect the crash scene, I was able to smell a strong odor of marijuana emanating from the vehicle,” the officer wrote.
While cannabis is legal to consume in New Mexico, driving while under the influence of cannabis carries the same criminal penalties as drunken driving.
Early Sunday, a judge signed a search warrant for police to draw Reyes’s blood to be tested for drugs and alcohol, the statement says. The results of the blood test were not available Monday.
Reyes has received traffic citations in recent years, but she does not appear to have faced any prior criminal charges related to driving under the influence.
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Santa Fe County has seen more than 140 DWI charges filed so far this year, more than double the number over the same period in 2023.
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