Accident survivors living in stolen RV

FORT SUMNER — One person has been arrested and another is being sought in connection with the recovery of a stolen recreational vehicle Jan. 27 at a residence here.

Kendra Ammons, 37, remains in the De Baca County Jail after she was found in the 1977 Dodge motor home on Jan. 27. She is charged with transferring or receiving a stolen vehicle, a fourth-degree felony.

De Baca County Sheriff Chad Roybal said his office is also seeking to arrest 20-year-old Terrance Abeyta on the same charge.

Ammons is also being held on a warrant out of Curry County for failure to comply with conditions of release after she was arrested on five similar counts in Clovis.

Abeyta and Ammons are the same couple who escaped serious injury Jan. 21 when the car they were in collided with a semi-tractor trailer rig east of Fort Sumner. Abeyta fled the scene of the accident and was later arrested on multiple charges by New Mexico State Police officers.

Roybal said he received information that the couple were living in a recreational vehicle parked in front of a home just north of Fort Sumner. He went to that location to check with Abeyta on his conditions of release from custody from charges resulting from the Jan. 21 incident.

Roybal said a check of the RV’s registration marked it as stolen from a rural Curry County home on Dec. 27. Ammons was found in the vehicle and arrested, but Abeyta was not located.