Tortugas man accused of assaulting woman driver.

Freddy B. Montoya, 48, was arrested by New Mexico State Police on Wednesday in the alleged kidnapping and rape of a 19-year-old on March 2 south of Las Cruces, the Las Cruces Sun-News reported today on its Web site.

The Las Cruces woman was forced to stop her car on Stern Road, a frontage road for Interstate 10, when a small dark blue pickup truck passed her and then blocked the two-lane road around 10:30 p.m. on March 2, the Sun-News reported.

Two men got out of the truck, forced the woman to unlock her doors at gunpoint, then the gunman raped the woman inside the car while the second man held her down, the paper reported.

Montoya was arrested Wednesday after investigators reviewed video surveillance tapes from a gas station from which the men allegedly followed the woman, then compared the woman's description of both her assailants and the truck, the Sun-News said.

Police found the truck at Montoya's home, the paper reported.

The second suspect has been identified but remains at large, the Sun-News said.

Although the story had been linked with several other recent cases involving the assault or attempted assault of women driving alone in the Las Cruces area, police say this case isn't related to a rash of stops by men impersonating police, according to the Sun-News.

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