Ring footage shows repeat offender and boy prowling Rio Rancho backyard

A Ring camera in Rio Rancho caught a woman and a young boy slipping into a backyard, walking straight to the back door, peering through a window and trying a shed before leaving. The footage, recorded May 3, has sharpened concern in Sandoval County because the woman was identified as Angelique Sanchez, a name already tied to a widely watched child-custody and fugitive case in Albuquerque.

In the video, the pair appeared to open a screen door, spent several seconds looking through the window and then tried to open the homeowner’s shed. The scene did not unfold in the dead of night. It happened in daylight, in a residential neighborhood where many homeowners rely on Ring cameras and similar systems to catch activity at the edges of a property, especially around side yards, backyard gates and detached storage areas.

The Rio Rancho footage also revived attention on Sanchez’s earlier case involving her son, Carlos Hernandez. In April 2024, New Mexico State Police issued an Amber Alert after Sanchez was accused of taking her 10-year-old son from outside the New Mexico Human Services Department building in northeast Albuquerque and fleeing in a white Hyundai Sonata. Police said she rammed a state police vehicle and drove the wrong way on Menaul Avenue before officers arrested her near 5th and Bellrose NW on April 24, 2024.

Court records in that case said Sanchez was charged with custodial interference, aggravated assault on a peace officer, aggravated fleeing, child abuse and criminal damage to property. Authorities also said the boy’s aunt had custody of him since 2018 after an earlier incident involving Sanchez at a methadone clinic. KRQE later reported that Sanchez remained detained until trial and later accepted a plea deal in connection with the Amber Alert case.

That history makes the Rio Rancho video more than a neighborhood nuisance clip. It suggests a pattern in which a child may again have been pulled into suspected theft, this time at a home where the vulnerable points were not the front entrance but the back door, the window and the shed. For homeowners, the lesson is plain: cameras need to cover the places people assume are hidden, and any suspicious video should be preserved immediately so it can be shared with police before it is overwritten.