{"id":115028,"date":"2015-01-27T18:22:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T01:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/teenager-gets-option-in-hammer-attack\/"},"modified":"2015-01-27T18:22:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T01:22:24","slug":"teenager-gets-option-in-hammer-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/teenager-gets-option-in-hammer-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager gets option in hammer attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In court Jan. 20, Austin Yeager, an 18-year-old high school dropout, pleaded guilty before Chief District Court Judge Doug Walker to second-degree assault. Yeager reportedly told police that he hit his former 16-year-old girlfriend in the head with a hammer \u201ctwo to four\u201d times.<\/p>\n<p>Medical records reveal the alleged victim suffered a concussion, three lacerations on her forehead and a contusion.<\/p>\n<p>Charges of first-degree assault and unlawful sexual contact are likely to be dismissed if the court accepts the plea deal at sentencing on March 17.<\/p>\n<p>The charge carries a maximum eight-year prison term and three years of parole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>court Jan. 20, Austin Yeager, an 18-year-old high school dropout, pleaded guilty before Chief District Court Judge Doug Walker to second-degree assault. Yeager reportedly told police that he hit his former 16-year-old girlfriend in the head with a hammer \u201ctwo to four\u201d times. Medical records reveal the alleged victim suffered a concussion, three lacerations [&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":[6371],"tags":[13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-115028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mt-news","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115028","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=115028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115028"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=115028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}