THREE ROOMMATES ACCUSED OF A WEEKEND RAPE APPEAR IN A LAS CRUCES COURTROOM THIS WEEK. NINETEEN YEAR OLDS CODY HIGHFILL AND ROBERTO BALDERRAMA … AND 21-YEAR-OLD STEPHEN MOLERES WERE ARRESTED LAST SATURDAY … EACH SUSPECTED OF RAPING A 22 YEAR OLD WOMAN LAS CRUCES POLICE SAY WAS HIGHLY INTOXICATED.
OFFICERS WERE SENT TO A HOSPITAL AFTER STAFF REPORTED THE WOMAN WAS BEING TREATED THERE. POLICE SAY THE WOMAN LIVES AT THE SAME APARTMENT COMPLEX AS THE SUSPECT AND HAD REPORTEDLY BEEN DRINKING WITH TWO OF THE MEN, HIGHFILL AND MOLERES, BEFORE THE ALLEGED RAPE OCCURRED.
EACH SUSPECT IS BEING HELD ON A 20-THOUSAND-DOLLAR BOND.
