Overview
- Deputies with the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office went to Means’ home in Tijeras after his 17-year-old daughter called to report a domestic altercation.
- The criminal complaint says the dispute over chores escalated as he allegedly headbutted her, grabbed her neck in a strangling manner, threw a potato, and punched her.
- Officers documented red hand marks on her neck, blood in and on her nose, and multiple facial marks consistent with being struck.
- Means told investigators the argument was verbal and said he only became physical when trying to restrain her from hitting him.
- He faces one count of abandonment or abuse of a child and appeared in Bernalillo County court before being released on his own recognizance, with the case still open.