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Judge lifts GPS monitoring for former firefighters charged with rape
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Three former Albuquerque firefighters accused of raping a woman were allowed by a judge this week to shed the GPS ankle monitors each had worn since September.
Aden Heyman, 46, Angel Portillo, 32, and Anthony Martin, 44, each are charged with criminal sexual penetration in the July 15 incident.
A judge in September ordered the three to be released from custody while awaiting trial on condition that they each wear GPS ankle monitors.
Attorneys for each of the men had filed motions asking state District Judge Britt Baca-Miller to modify conditions of release to allow the removal of the GPS monitors.
In separate hearings this week in 2nd Judicial District Court, Baca-Miller granted those motions for Portillo and Martin on Wednesday and for Heyman on Thursday.
An Albuquerque Fire Rescue spokesman said at the time that Heyman was a lieutenant, Portillo was a firefighter and Martin had recently retired from the department.
Court records indicate that Portillo and Heyman are no longer employed by the department.
Heyman’s attorney, Jason Bowles, wrote in a Dec. 12 motion seeking removal of the ankle monitor that Heyman would “like to obtain employment but is having to explain why he has a GPS, which has hindered him.”
Officers responded about 11 p.m. to the Villas apartment complex in the 600 block of Menaul NE, near Broadway, after a couple found a woman curled up and crying near the outdoor pool, according to a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court.
The woman told police that Heyman, Portillo and Martin had raped her before she escaped through a bathroom window, the complaint said.
