A 48-year-old Rio Rancho woman is facing a third-degree felony charge after police say a dispute over signing over a vehicle title turned violent Friday, leaving her ex-wife with a puncture wound from a writing pen.
Rio Rancho police responded to the 3000 block of Southern Boulevard SE around 5:48 p.m. July 10 after a caller reported two parties fighting and a man brandishing a firearm, according to a Rio Rancho Police Department statement of probable cause. Officers detained the armed man, later identified as the victim’s son-in-law, while sorting out the scene.
The report states the woman and her ex-wife had arranged to meet to sign over title on a vehicle they’d purchased together. When the ex-wife wouldn’t sign without police present, the woman grew impatient, approached the car and reached through a window — punching and stabbing her ex-wife in the thigh with a pen, police say. The son-in-law told officers he was also struck during the altercation but declined to press charges…