Vehicular homicide suspect vanishes

HIMSELF IN TWO MONTHS AGO ON CHARGES HE DROVE DRUNK AND KILLED HIS LONGTIME GIRLFRIEND. THEN TH...  More »

HIMSELF IN TWO MONTHS AGO ON CHARGES HE DROVE DRUNK AND KILLED HIS LONGTIME GIRLFRIEND. THEN THE CHARGES WERE DROPPED--- AND THE MAN--- CHRISTY MAESTAS--- WAS LET OUT OF JAIL. NOW HE'S BEEN CHARGED AGAIN. THE PROBLEM -- HE'S PULLED A VANISHING ACT. SHELTON DODSON IS LIVE DOWNTOWN WITH TONIGHT'S TOP STORY... SHELTON: MAESTAS HAS THREE PRIOR D-W-I CONVICTIONS AND NOW FACES A FOURTH AND A CHARGE OF VEHICULAR HOMICIDE AS WELL. TWO MONTHS AGO HE WAS IN HANDCUFFS... TONIGHT HE'S ON THE RUN: THIS WAS THE SCENE JULY 25TH ON I-25 NORTHBOUND NEAR THE RIO BRAVO EXIT. THIS IS WHERE 55- YEAR-OLD CHRISTY MAESTAS CROSSED THE CENTER LINE, CAUSING THIS CRASH WHICH KILLED HIS GIRLFRIEND SUSAN FERNANDEZ. IN THE DAYS AFTER THE CRASH DEPUTIES SAY THEY FOUND EVIDENCE MAESTAS WAS DRIVING DRUNK AND ISSUED A WARRANT FOR HIS ARREST. THREE WEEKS LATER A FRIEND TOOK MAESTAS TO BRIGIT RAMIREZ'S HOUSE IN BOSQUE FARMS. SHE IS AN OFFICER WITH THE MOTOR TRANSPORTATION DIVISION AND HELPED MAESTAS TURN HIMSELF IN. BUT THAT'S WHEN THE CASE GETS CLOUDY. IN SEPTEMBER THE CHARGES AGAINST MAESTAS WERE DROPPED AND THE CASE SENT TO A GRAND JURY INSTEAD. AND LAST WEEK THAT GRAND JURY FOUND ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO INDICT MAESTAS ON THE SAME TWO CHARGES HE FACED THE FIRST TIME AROUND PLUS TWO MORE. SO NOW THERE'S A WARRANT OUT FOR HIS ARREST AND A 150-THOUSAND DOLLAR CASH ONLY BOND ON HIS HEAD... THE PROBLEM IS CHRISTY MAESTAS IS NO WHERE TO BE FOUND. TONIGHT WE WENT TO MAESTAS' HOME LOOKING TO TALK TO HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS. BUT NO ONE WOULD ANSWER THE DOOR. REPORTING LIVE FROM B-S-C-O HEADQUARTERS..., SHELTON DODSON, EYEWITNESS NEWS  « Less