Andrew James, 44, was also arrested by New Mexico State Police and has been charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He was released on a $10,000 surety bond. Both defendants bonded out on June 22, according to magistrate court staff.

According to a criminal complaint filed in Torrance County Magistrate Court, the minor, who told police he is 16, said sexual activity between him and Sal-Da-Na began in August 2008 and ended a month before he ran away from the defendants' residence nine months later.

He first met Sal-Da-Na and live-in boyfriend James in 2005 on an online Arabian horse forum, he told police. The accuser was living with his mother in Arizona at the time, the complaint states. He said he lived with Sal-Da-Na and James twice, beginning in mid-July 2007. The couple had hired the boy to help them with new horses on Cole Road in Moriarty, the complaint states. The boy said he returned to the ranch after the 2007-2008 school year let out because "(his mother) considered this opportunity to be an apprenticeship for him," the complaint states.

During the second time the minor lived with the defendants, he told investigators he was forced by Sal-Da-Na to engage in sexual intercourse, but never when James was at home. The minor told investigators James worked as a nurse at the University of New Mexico Hospital, and that Sal-Da-Na had no job but sold jewelry at the Moriarty Flea Market. The sexual activity occurred while James was at work, the minor told police.

The 16-year-old ran away the evening of April 28, 2009, he told police. He told Sal-Da-Na "he wasn't gay and wasn't going to do this anymore," then hitchhiked to his current guardians' residence in Rio Rancho, according to the complaint.

But the young man returned to the ranch in Moriarty.

"(He stated) Danny told him that if he didn't come home he would call the police and that his guardians would go to jail for harboring a runaway. Fearful for the guardians, (he) agreed to return to the defendant," court documents stated.

On May 1, the minor left the defendants' residence for good. His current guardians received power of attorney through his mother on May 11, according to court documents.

The minor told investigators that Sal-Da-Na used threats and coercion to keep him at the ranch. The minor also told police that "if he refused to do what the defendant wanted, (Sal-Da-Na) would punish him by giving him more chores and not letting him in the house at night," the criminal complaint states.

Since the minor left the defendants' residence in early May, Sal-Da-Na and James have attempted to contact the minor, court documents stated.

The criminal complaint detailed an incident in mid-May in which the defendants met the minor at a horse show at the New Mexico State Fairgrounds. Sal-Da-Na gave him a letter confessing his love with a lock of the defendant's hair inside, the minor told investigators. More recently, the two tried to contact the minor in a restroom at the state fairgrounds on June 18, court documents stated. The current guardians notified police, and the handwritten letters were collected as evidence, according to court documents.

A preliminary hearing will be scheduled within 60 days of arrest, but no date has been set, according to Deputy District Attorney Tim Cornish.