A man was jailed after being accused of turning the gas on in his estranged wife's house south of Santa Fe.

David Dean Gallegos, 43, was charged Tuesday with aggravated stalking, residential burglary, possession of a controlled substance, resisting arrest and criminal damage to property.

According to a statement of probable cause filed in Santa Fe Magistrate Court by Sgt. Clifton Coleman of the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Department, Gallegos' estranged wife returned to her home on Delaware Lane, off N.M. 14, on Nov. 2 to find it filled with gas shortly after receiving a threatening text message from Gallegos.

After the propane was turned off at the meter and the gas was cleared out of the home, the wife found three of the four top burners on the stove had been turned on but not lit. Also, someone had stuck two fingers into each of the four pies she left on the counter, Coleman wrote.

Coleman said there were no signs of forced entry, and the wife reported only she and Gallegos had keys to the house.

According to the statement, the woman said she and Gallegos had been living separately for 11 months. She had recently become pregnant from someone other than her husband, the statement said, and Gallegos "has tried to get her medical records to find out if she was pregnant or not and he is very upset with her right now."

Gallegos had been arrested on a charge of stalking on Oct. 11, five days after he was served a court order to stay away from his wife. The order from state District Judge Raymond Ortiz says the couple's 3-year-old daughter, after visiting with Gallegos, returned with bruises on her arm that looked like hand marks, but Gallegos refused to discuss the injuries.

On Nov. 2, deputies went to a hotel where Gallegos was living with a girlfriend and their children, but were unable to find him. Deputies located him later at his muffler shop on San Mateo Lane, but "he would not comply with their commands and had to be taken down to the ground," the statement said. Deputies said they found four tablets of hydrocodone on him and said he appeared to be intoxicated, though he declined to take a breath test.