{"id":100888,"date":"2018-03-21T15:40:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T21:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/police-looking-for-suspect-in-hotel-bomb-threat\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T15:40:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T21:40:12","slug":"police-looking-for-suspect-in-hotel-bomb-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/police-looking-for-suspect-in-hotel-bomb-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Police looking for suspect in hotel bomb threat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Officers
Officers with the Durango Police Department searched cars Tuesday afternoon in the Holiday Inn & Suites parking lot after a report of a bomb threat. The caller used a \u201cspoof\u201d number to make the threat to hotel staff.<\/span>Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

The Durango Police Department has not yet identified a suspect in Tuesday\u2019s bomb threat at Holiday Inn & Suites, which closed U.S. Highway 160 for more than two hours in west Durango.<\/p>\n

A man called the hotel shortly after 2:30 p.m. using a \u201cspoof\u201d phone number \u2013 a tactic of changing the number seen on a caller ID \u2013 making it difficult to trace, said Cmdr. Ray Shupe, with the police department.<\/p>\n

More specifically, the caller used an app to mask the phone number, he said.<\/p>\n

Shupe said the suspect called the hotel twice to report a bomb in the building.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe threat was that it (the bomb) was going to go off in 10 minutes,\u201d he said. \u201cThen, he called back to say, \u2018No, you have 20 minutes.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Officers evacuated the hotel and went room-to-room to clear the building, closing U.S. Highway 160 between Camino del Rio and Wildcat Canyon.<\/p>\n

Traffic was rerouted onto County Road 210 until the highway reopened at 5:13 p.m.<\/p>\n

Durango Fire Protection District, La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Colorado State Patrol assisted with the investigation. The Farmington Police Department Bomb Squad was placed on standby.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement officers did not find anything suspicious during their sweep of the building.<\/p>\n

Bomb threats are not completely uncommon in Durango, Shupe said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe probably deal with two or three a year, but a lot of the time they\u2019re at schools,\u201d he said. \u201cWe want to thank the public for their patience and support yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n

mrupani@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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