A Lafayette man has been arrested and accused of choking a woman and preventing her from escaping her home, before stealing and crashing her car with her in it.

Mizraim Fernando Tejeda-Trujillo, 28, is facing charges of second-degree assault; second-degree kidnapping; false imprisonment; vehicular assault; obstruction of telephone service; reckless endangerment; reckless driving; driving under the influence of alcohol; no proof of insurance; driving with a suspended license.

Tejeda-Trujillo also had active warrants out for his arrest for third-degree assault and criminal mischief out of the Adams County Sheriff’s Office; sexual assault out of the Denver Police Department; and a violation of a protection order out of the Lakewood Police Department.

He is currently in custody in lieu of a $75,000 bond and is set to next appear on Tuesday for his formal filing of charges.

According to an affidavit, at approximately 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Lafayette police were notified of a possible disturbance at a Lafayette address which was redacted from the affidavit. A woman told dispatchers that a man was trying to steal her car, and then she was heard saying, “Let me out.”

Before police made it to the scene, they were alerted to a crash at another undisclosed address that was possibly related to the incident.

Police later learned through interviews and reviewing surveillance footage, that at about 11 a.m. the same day, Tejeda-Trujillo arrived at the woman’s apartment and began arguing with her. The woman told police he smelled of alcohol and that she found a 375 mL bottle of Fireball Whiskey, that she believed he drank.

The two went inside where Tejeda-Trujillo reportedly threw the woman on her bed and pinned her down, according to the affidavit. The woman told police that Tejeda-Trujillo threatened to kill her, then began choking her, during which she was unable to breathe for approximately 35 seconds.

According to the affidavit, Tejeda-Trujillo also reportedly headbutted her three times, and bit her.

Police wrote that Tejeda-Trujillo took her phone so she was unable to call 911. The woman later told police she was able to get to the bathroom but was unable to leave as Tejeda-Trujillo stood in front of the door blocking her from escaping, according to the affidavit. She told police she was eventually able to escape after lying to Tejeda-Trujillo that she heard a knock at the door and believed it to be police.

The woman then fled to a neighbor’s home and called 911 during which Tejeda-Trujillo got in her car in an effort to steal it, according to the affidavit. She told police she then ran and got in the passenger’s side of the car in an attempt to stop him — but Tejeda-Trujillo took off, narrowly missing an SUV in front of the vehicle. Police determined through surveillance footage, that the woman was still partially out of the car with the door open and was at risk of serious bodily injury.

The vehicle sped through a stop sign before turning right onto eastbound West Baseline Road, according to the affidavit. Witnesses told police the car was going 70 mph in a 30 mph zone, and the woman could be heard by dispatchers telling Tejeda-Trujillo to let her out of the car. She reported to police that she was unable to buckle her seatbelt.

As the car approached the intersection of West Baseline Road and North 111th Street there was another car stopped in the eastbound lanes at a red light, according to the affidavit. Tejeda-Trujillo reportedly drove into the oncoming westbound lanes to avoid hitting the stopped car, then continued in the westbound lanes. He then reached another red light at the intersection of West Baseline Road and North Public Road, where he reportedly switched back into the eastbound lanes, narrowly missing a vehicle, according to the affidavit.

In surveillance footage, police saw that the car then overcorrected and turned left, but the direction it traveled next was redacted from the affidavit. Police reported that the vehicle was speeding, before hitting a curb and narrowly missing two vehicles going westbound. According to the affidavit, the car Tejeda-Trujillo was driving then went airborne and rolled multiple times. During this crash, the woman fell out of the front passenger-side door. The vehicle landed on its roof, and Tejeda-Trujillo was seen walking westbound, away from the vehicle.

Police interviewed Tejeda-Trujillo, who admitted to taking the woman’s phone and driving while drunk but said he stopped to allow the her to get out of the car, and she refused. Tejeda-Trujillo also told police the woman slapped him while they were in the car, according to the affidavit.

The woman had a fractured rib which likely punctured her left lung, resulting in a collapsed lung.