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SANTA FE – An unredacted police report and lapel camera video released Friday provided a few more details about a Halloween night incident that caused a Santa Fe Police Department lieutenant and her police officer husband to abruptly resign from the force earlier this week.

Lt. Andrea Dobyns, who had been the SFPD’s public information officer, and officer Joe Baca, both 35 years old, submitted letters of resignation to interim Chief Patrick Gallagher on Monday as a result of the goings-on at the Allsup’s convenience store at Agua Fria and Maez Road early Nov. 1.

No charges have been filed against the couple, but city spokesman Matt Ross confirmed Friday that Chief Gallagher will notify the state Law Enforcement Academy Review Board. The board is empowered to suspend or revoke law enforcement licenses. Before Friday, the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office had only released a heavily redacted version of its incident report of the incident.

About 2:15 a.m. Sunday, sheriff’s deputies got a call from SFPD saying two of their officers, who were married, were involved in a domestic incident at 1220 Maez Road. The case was handed off to the sheriff’s office because of the conflict of interest.

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Gilbert Trujillo, an Allsup’s clerk, had called 911 and told a dispatcher that people were yelling outside. Part of the group that had arrived in Dobyns’ 2010 Cadillac sedan was a woman in a fairy costume identified only as “Lana” by Dobyns. Lana went into the store to buy cigarettes.

“She said, ‘Can you sell me a pack right away? These guys are going to leave me,’ ” Trujillo can be heard telling deputies in lapel camera footage. “She said, ‘There are two off-duty cops that want to gang-bang me.’ Those were her words. Apparently she was trying to tell me that they were going to rape her, in a way.”

Trujillo said the woman went back outside and tried to open the back door of the Cadillac, but the door was locked. He said the woman then started walking away, and that’s when he saw several people exit the car and run after her.

“They were all running out of the car,” Trujillo said. “I didn’t even see how many ran out. They were up the road, yelling. They didn’t let her in the back door, so she started walking down to the corner, and they all must have ran after her, and she started hauling ass up Maez Road. Apparently she was running away from them.”

The sheriff’s office said earlier this week that it wanted to see video from the Allsup’s to possibly help determine who was driving the Cadillac and whether anyone was driving drunk. But the store had no exterior cameras and on Friday, the sheriff’s office provided a statement from Allsup’s saying the interior surveillance camera reset early Sunday because of the daylight saving time change and missed the Dobyns/Baca incident.

Sheriff Robert Garcia said Friday evening that “more than likely” the case “is not going anywhere.”

Dobyns told police that she and Baca had been at Skylight Santa Fe night club downtown when they ran into Lana, who Dobyns said was an old friend, although she told deputies she couldn’t remember the woman’s last name or any way to contact her. She also said she asked Lana to drive after they left the club, because she and Baca had been drinking.

“I haven’t talked to her in I’d say at least a year,” Dobyns said. “We used to be good friends – well, like friends. We saw her at Skylight.”

Both Baca and Dobyns said that Baca left the Cadillac after they got to Allsup’s and started walking home, although the home address listed in the report for both Baca and Dobyns is about a mile-and-a-half from the Allsup’s on Agua Fria, in a neighborhood off Rancho Siringo, because he was tired and didn’t want cigarettes. Both officers said that Dobyns ran after Baca when he started walking away, and they both denied they were arguing.

“Nothing is going on, man,” Baca told deputies. “I’m loud. I have a loud voice. We got a ride from one of her friends, and I just left. It was nothing bad. We weren’t fighting. It was nothing crazy.”

After speaking with Trujillo at the Allsup’s, the sheriff’s office’s Sgt. Michael Delgado and Deputy John Maylone concluded that Lana in the fairy costume, who was never found, was not in danger. They also didn’t seem convinced that more than three people were in the Cadillac, since the interior of Dobyns’ car was so cluttered .

“I have no reason to believe that she was in fear of being raped,” Delgado says on a recording. “I don’t see anything criminal.”

Maylone replies, “Exactly, she was in no danger.”

A sheriff’s spokesman has said deputies are no longer looking for Lana.