


A 20-year-old Denver-area man has been arrested and accused of giving a Longmont teen alcohol before sexually assaulting her last month.
Elquin Garcia Fajardo, who allegedly has used the alias “Jonathan Garcia,” is charged of child sexual assault and second-degree contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Fajardo is currently in custody in lieu of a $500,000 bond and is set to next appear June 9 for a preliminary hearing.
A booking photo was not immediately available.
Around 12:29 a.m. April 2, Longmont police were notified of a 14-year-old who had been missing since 9:30 p.m. April 1. The teen’s family told police they believed she could be with a man by the name of “Johnathan Garcia” based on a message via Snapchat about picking her up, according to an arrest affidavit.
The teen later got in contact with her family and she was found apparently “under the influence of alcohol” and with a group of “transient” people, according to the affidavit. Shortly after, she said she had been sexually assaulted, according to the affidavit.
Police later learned through an interview with the teen that she had been talking over Snapchat with Fajardo and agreed to meet the evening of April 1. Fajardo reportedly picked her up from around the Sonic at 2339 Main St. in a red car, provided her with alcohol and drove in the area of Carr Park. While parked, she took puffs from what she thought was marijuana, according to the affidavit.The teen reported feeling like fainting, tired and dizzy when Fajardo reportedly sexually assaulted her in the car. She said someone called Fajardo using the teen’s Snapchat account, according to the affidavit.
Fajardo then reportedly drove the teen home and told her to get out of the car — when the teen said she didn’t want to, Fajardo reportedly threatened to hit her, according to the affidavit. After being unable to get back into her home, the teen used an unhoused man’s phone to call her mother, according to the affidavit.
In the investigation, Longmont police used surveillance video from a housing area, traffic camera video and information from FLOCK cameras along roads; the Colorado state courts database; vehicle registration records; and law enforcement records resources called Accurint and Lumen to confirm Fajardo’s identity and the apparent different locations of his red Chevy Camaro that night, according to the affidavit.