ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. ‐ Charges of rape, kidnapping, false imprisonment  and impersonating a police officer have been dismissed nearly a year after they were filed against a Colorado man who is a member of a prominent Ruidoso family, the Ruidoso News reported.

David M. Hubbard turned himself in to the Ruidoso Police Department on Aug. 8, 2012, after police interviewed him concerning an alleged rape on Aug. 4 or 5, 2012, the News said.

The alleged victim and a witness told police on the morning of Aug. 5 that the woman had been ordered into a vehicle by a man claiming to be an undercover police officer and was sexually assaulted by the man who was later identified as Hubbard, the paper reported.

“I believe that a man was probably accused of a crime that he did not commit,” Deputy District Attorney John Sugg said in state District Court in Carrizozo last week as he dismissed charges against Hubbard.

“Part of the investigation led to evidence that this could have been an act of prostitution and during this act of prostitution Mr. Hubbard did not pay, and she became angry,” Sugg said in court. “She is adamant that she did not know who David Hubbard was until the arrest, but she has been going around telling people that she is going to get rich off this case.”

Sugg said there were several inconsistent statements by the alleged victim and the witness and that their stories did not hold up during polygraph exams performed by an FBI agent at Suggs’ request, the News said.

“There were allegations throughout the time that this was a great conspiracy and because he is a ‘Hubbard’ he was going to get off,” Sugg said. “This was not what was going on. We were just simply trying to get the truth.”

Sugg said that just because this case did not result in prosecution, that should not discourage victims from reporting sexual assaults, the News said.