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SANTA FE — A man and woman arrested by Santa Fe police Thursday night had terrorized several people around town since early that morning, according to court documents and reports from the SFPD.

Nathaniel Kurtok, 30, and Jennifer Grogg, 21, were taken into custody after a standoff with police Thursday night at the Country Club Gardens mobile home park off Airport Road on charges of armed robbery, aggravated burglary with a deadly weapon, conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary with a deadly weapon and bribery of a witness.

They are accused of robbing a man at gunpoint in his own south side apartment and pointed a gun at another man near an apparently random encounter on the other side of town, near an east side elementary school.

According to an arrest warrant affidavit filed in Santa Fe Magistrate Court, a man told police that Kurtok kicked in the door of his Zepol Road apartment around 8:45 a.m. Thursday while he was sleeping. He said Kurtock pointed a silver revolver at him while Grogg grabbed a TV and a pellet gun and took the items to a car. Kurtock then pulled out a hunting knife, put it to the victim’s throat and said, “If you call the police I will kill you,” before leaving in the apartment, the robbery victim said.

The officer wrote in his report that the man was visibly shaken and was scared that Kurtok was going to come back and kill him. He said he had met the couple through a mutual friend at Country Club Gardens and started hanging out with them in November.

At about 9:50 a.m. Thursday, officers were dispatched to Camino Delora near Desert Montessori School and Cristo Rey Catholic Church after reports of shots fired. A contractor told police that he was meeting with two city officials over drainage work on Camino Delora when a silver Honda Civic drove by at high speed and that he yelled at the male driver to slow down. Hesaid the driver, later identified as Kurtok, then stopped in the middle of the street, got out of the car, pointed a large silver revolver at the contractor’s head and asked, “How do you like that?”

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The city workers told police that they took cover behind their work trucks because they thought Kurtok was going to shoot them.

Kurtok got back into his car and the men at the scene reported hearing gunshots as he drove away. They said a woman later identified at Grogg was sitting in the passenger seat but never got out of the car.

Officers started setting up a perimeter around the mobile home park around 6:30 p.m. and diverted traffic from the area. It’s unclear from police reports when they were taken into custody, but Santa Fe County jail records indicate that Grogg was booked about 10 p.m. and Kurtok was taken in about an hour later.

Kurtock was given a $100,000 cash bond while Grogg was given a $50,000 surety bond, meaning she can get out by posting 10 percent with a bond company.