{"id":108508,"date":"2015-11-02T17:45:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T00:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/sex-offender-fails-to-register\/"},"modified":"2015-11-02T17:45:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T00:45:06","slug":"sex-offender-fails-to-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/sex-offender-fails-to-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex offender fails to register"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Made available to the public on Monday, Deputy Brian Hill wrote in an Oct. 17 report that Herman Ricky Maestas, 42, had failed to register his new address as a convicted sex offender. Hill said his last contact with Maestas occurred at his mother\u2019s residence at the Lakeside Trailer Park on Aug. 13.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI gave him a verbal warning and he told me he will keep the Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Office informed of his address and information,\u201d Hill wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Early last month, Maestas\u2019 mother told authorities that her son no longer lived at her home. According to Hill, the last attempt to contact Maestas occurred on Oct. 16.<\/p>\n<p>According to a sheriff\u2019s official, Maestas pleaded guilty to third degree sexual assault in 1996. The case originated in Montezuma County.<\/p>\n<p>As of press deadlines, neither the sheriff\u2019s office nor Cortez Police Department had a photo of Maestas on their respective sex offender websites.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:tbaker@the-journal.com\">tbaker@the-journal.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>available to the public on Monday, Deputy Brian Hill wrote in an Oct. 17 report that Herman Ricky Maestas, 42, had failed to register his new address as a convicted sex offender. Hill said his last contact with Maestas occurred at his mother\u2019s residence at the Lakeside Trailer Park on Aug. 13. \u201cI gave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[21,13,51,524],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-108508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-police","tag-sexual-assault"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108508"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=108508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}