A Santa Fe man faces a handful of felony charges after, sheriff’s deputes allege, he offered a young girl money and then attempted to run her over while trying to pick her up earlier this month on a county road in the small northern Santa Fe County community of El Rancho.

The 11-year-old girl described a disturbing scene to investigators in which the man propositioned her from his pickup as she walked along the side of the road one afternoon, eventually trying to block her path and then driving toward her before fleeing.

Santa Fe County sheriff’s deputies on Thursday filed charges against Mark John Roybal, 60, including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, false imprisonment, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and enticement of a child, according to a criminal complaint.

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