Courts and Crime

Scott Chilleen’s sentencing pushed back after defense requests evidentiary hearing

Chilleen was set to be sentenced Monday for 2021 crash

March 20, 2024

Courts and Crime

Lewis woman sentenced to 25 years for husband’s murder

Marie Garcia had claimed the 2023 death was a mercy killing

March 6, 2024

Courts and Crime

Cortez police seek man who allegedly attacked woman in City Market parking lot

is suspected of putting a gun to a woman’s head and pulling her from a vehicle

March 4, 2024

Courts and Crime

Cortez woman faces jury trial after refusing to move parked RV

had 96 hours to move her vehicle after her court case at the beginning of February

February 27, 2024

Courts and Crime

Mancos man found guilty of vehicular homicide in 2021 crash

Edouard Chilleen denied he was driving in crash that killed woman

January 26, 2024

Courts and Crime

Update: Lyndreth Wall put in halfway house in Denver; no word on resignation

Council responds to federal indictment in sex case

January 22, 2024

Courts and Crime

Officers won’t face charges after killing suspect in slaying of Cortez police Sgt. Moran

Officers identified; district attorney says they were ‘legally justified’

January 3, 2024

Courts and Crime

Suspect identified in shooting death of Cortez Police Sgt. Michael Moran

44-year-old man was shot and killed after roadside stop

December 2, 2023

Courts and Crime

Update: Sgt. Michael Moran identified as Cortez police officer killed Wednesday

Sgt. Moran was a K-9 handler and a Marine

November 29, 2023

Courts and Crime

Man found dead north of Dolores; suspect in homicide investigation identified

with information is asked to contact the Montezuma County Sheriff’s Office

July 29, 2023

Courts and Crime

Eight Montezuma County residents arrested after narcotics investigation

law enforcement worked for nearly two years to capture alleged traffickers

July 27, 2023

Community

Cortez teenager pleads guilty to stabbing mother to death in 2022

Teen’s lawyers attempt a plea agreement; family pushes back

June 21, 2023

Courts and Crime

Cortez man who was arrested with guns and body armor pleads guilty

Jonathan Michael Berry pleads guilty to a Class 5 felony weapons charge and misdemeanor DUI

June 9, 2023

Courts and Crime

Armed Cortez man arrested for DUI; multiple firearms found in vehicle

believe they interrupted what could have become a domestic incident

April 28, 2023

Local News

Bayfield man suspected of mutilating dog by dragging it behind his car near Cortez

Sheriff: Dustin Edward Martinez refused to have his dog euthanized after a witness took him and his dog to vet

December 3, 2021

Local News

Cortez man suspected of heading drug trafficking operation is arrested in Arizona

P. Blackmore arrested in Phoenix with 1,000 fentanyl pills in his possession

November 6, 2021