FBI agents arrested a Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo teenager Friday for the murder of a 26-year-old man found dead last weekend on a neighboring pueblo, according to court documents.

Carl Romero, who is either 18 or 19, admitted he shot Naayaitch Friday in the chest with a shotgun April 11 in a dispute over drugs and money, according to an affidavit for Romero's arrest filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque. And although Friday begged him not to shoot him again, Romero reloaded the gun and shot him in the face, then left his body in an arroyo on San Ildefonso Pueblo land, the affidavit says.

Romero appeared in federal Magistrate Court in Albuquerque on Friday morning, where a judge detained him until a preliminary hearing scheduled for Monday morning, said Norm Cairns, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office.

An El Rancho resident discovered Friday's body in the arroyo off of Santa Fe County Road 84D about 4:30 p.m. April 11, an FBI spokesman has said. Friday was lying on his back and dressed in a T-shirt, shorts, socks, shoes and a sweat shirt, with a bottle of vodka between his legs, according to a Santa Fe County Sheriff's Department report, whose personnel were the first on the scene.

Friday, initially identified as a member of the Jicarilla Apache tribe, belonged to the Arapaho tribe of Wyoming, according to the FBI affidavit. However, he had lived in the Santa Fe area for at least the last seven years and had four children, including an 8-month-old, with a girlfriend who also lived in the area, said Melynn Schuyler, executive director of YouthWorks in Santa Fe where Friday occasionally worked.

According to the FBI affidavit, Friday and a friend met at the Sonic fast-food restaurant in Española about 9:30 p.m., April 10 and began drinking alcohol. A green Chevrolet Cavalier driven by Romero, with two others inside, soon joined them, and they all continued drinking. Friday and his friend didn't know Romero and his friends, who were members of a north-side gang in Española, the affidavit says.

The five men left Sonic about 10:45 p.m. and went to the Big Rock Casino on the Santa Clara Pueblo near Española, where they drank in the sports bar until about 11:30 p.m., the affidavit states. The five left in the Cavalier at that time, then returned to the casino parking lot an hour later and milled around for about 15 minutes, according to the affidavit, which cites surveillance video of the men.

The five men "cruised around for awhile," then dropped off Friday's friend at a home in El Rancho on the San Ildefonso Pueblo. The other four men told the friend they were going to the Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino on the Pojoaque Pueblo, the affidavit says. At the time, Friday had $400 in cash on him and a full bottle of vodka.

Romero told FBI agents that after dropping off Friday's friend at the El Rancho home, "he got into a verbal confrontation with Friday over drugs and money," the affidavit states. At about the same time, one of the car's tires became problematic, so they pulled into an arroyo. All four men then got out of the car so Romero could check the tire levels.

"During this time, Friday continued to mouth off to Romero about the drugs and money," according to the affidavit. "Romero said he had had enough of Friday so he pulled out his .410 shotgun he had in the vehicle with him."

Romero admitted he then shot Friday in the chest.

"Romero reported Friday was crying and begging Romero not to shoot him again," the affidavit says. "Romero stated that he went to the car and loaded another shotgun shell into the shotgun. Romero reported that he then shot Friday in the face."

Agents recovered the shotgun in Romero's room at his home on the Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo.

Romero was arrested Feb. 20 by Ohkay Owingeh police for careless driving and driving while intoxicated, the affidavit states. At the time, the officer discovered the loaded shotgun in the car's back seat and asked Romero why he had it.

Romero said, "some guys were picking on his friends, so he went for the gun for protection and was going to shoot them if they came back," according to the affidavit. The officer seized the gun and later released it back to Romero's mother, the affidavit states.

Contact Jason Auslander at 986-3076 or :jauslander@sfnewmexican.com.