Police say a lime-green pair of ostrich-skin boots helped lead to the arrest Tuesday of a 28-year-old man in connection with a brutal home invasion over the weekend in southwest Santa Fe.

Santa Fe County Undersheriff Robert Garcia said Jesus Nicanor Gonzalez-Jiminez is accused of attacking and robbing a woman who is "in her 60s," though Garcia didn't know her exact age.

Gonzalez-Jiminez, who lives in the 3000 block of Jemez Road, was being held in lieu of $100,000 bond Tuesday night at the Santa Fe County jail, charged with one count each of aggravated burglary, robbery, unlawful taking of a motor vehicle, false imprisonment, battery and larceny under $250.

According to an arrest warrant filed by sheriff's Detective Diego Lucero, Gonzalez-Jiminez late Friday or early Saturday broke in through a bedroom window at the woman's house off Agua Fría Street on the city's southwestern edge. The woman told police she was in bed when he climbed on her and "demanded to have sex."

Investigators said the woman reported that Gonzalez-Jiminez earlier had approached her in her yard Friday night, asking to do work around her house. After she said she had no work for him, he then suggested that a woman her age "should jump at the opportunity to date a young man like him," according to the arrest warrant.

She asked him to leave, the document says, but roughly a half-hour later he returned to her home and knocked on her bedroom window. The woman again told him to leave, the document says, and she later went to sleep.

She told police that sometime that night or early the next morning she awoke to the sound of her bedroom window shattering and that before she could sit up, Gonzalez-Jiminez was on top of her.

As he began to grope her, she falsely claimed to have AIDS, "thinking he would not want to rape her," the arrest warrant states. The woman reported that Gonzalez-Jiminez threatened to kill her and also threatened to take her to Mexico.

The woman told investigators that she tried to flee, but Gonzalez-Jiminez caught her by pulling her hair and that she fell, suffering a gash on her head when she hit a coffee table.

The warrant says Gonzalez-Jiminez then tied up the woman in her bedroom and gagged her with a yellow cloth before taking $21, her cell phone and her car.

The woman said her attacker was wearing "lime green ostrich skin boots with the matching belt," the arrest warrant states.

Monday, police received a call leading them to Gonzalez-Jiminez's home on Jemez Road. Tuesday, detectives approached Gonzalez-Jiminez at his home and police say he was wearing a lime-green ostrich-skin belt and appeared to have a fresh cut on his hand.

The arrest warrant states the man let police look in his home and in his closet they found a pair of lime-colored ostrich skin boots that had a "distinct pattern on the heel of the boot sole that was very similar in appearance to the boot impressions located and photographed at the crime scene/point of entry into the victim's residence."

The woman later identified Gonzalez-Jiminez in a photo array, according to police, and he was arrested. He asked for an attorney and was not asked any further questions about the case Tuesday evening.

Contact Geoff Grammer at 986-3076 or ggrammer@sfnewmexican.com.

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