{"id":13528,"date":"2026-02-13T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fruitland-man-on-probation-charged-with-6th-dwi-after-near-collisions\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:38:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:38:46","slug":"fruitland-man-on-probation-charged-with-6th-dwi-after-near-collisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fruitland-man-on-probation-charged-with-6th-dwi-after-near-collisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruitland man on probation charged with 6th DWI after near collisions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=5b3620da-ed24-54db-820f-d2a16484c36e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Lorenzo Allen, 44, of Fruitland, was arrested Feb. 12 for a sixth DWI, while serving probation for a fifth DWI.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Lorenzo Allen, 44, of Fruitland, was arrested Feb. 12 for a sixth DWI, while serving probation for a fifth DWI.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A Fruitland man on supervised probation for his fifth DWI was arrested Feb. 12 after almost hitting several cars, a motorcycle and a house on County Road 6815 in the same area as his latest arrest, making this his sixth DWI charge.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenzo Allen, 44, was charged with a third-degree felony DWI and misdemeanor driving with a revoked license after the San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office responded to multiple calls at about 5:32 p.m. Feb. 12 near County Road 6700.<\/p>\n<p>The callers advised a 2009 black Audi A5 \u201cwas driving in a reckless manner and nearly crashed into several cars on Road 6700, and was also driving in the center of the road at times,\u201d according to the statement of probable cause.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies Tim Moore and S. Hindes caught up with the Audi on County Road 6815, where Allen stopped and exited the vehicle, which was parked \u201capproximately 8\u201310 inches away from striking the house\u201d at the location, according to the statement of probable cause.<\/p>\n<p>Allen approached the deputies, who reported him as being \u201cvery unsteady on his feet\u201d and having \u201cthe odor of an alcoholic beverage emitting from his person,\u201d court records state.<\/p>\n<p>Allen reportedly admitted to drinking a single bottle of beer and told authorities he was \u201ctest driving\u201d the Audi, according to the statement of probable cause.<\/p>\n<p>He allegedly refused a field sobriety test but submitted to a breath test, which read 0.08, court records state.<\/p>\n<p>He was serving a sentence of five years of supervised probation for his fifth DWI, which occurred on Feb. 27, 2023, in the same vicinity as his new arrest.<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary hearing is set for 8:30 a.m. Feb. 26 in San Juan County Magistrate Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorenzo Allen nearly struck multiple cars, a motorcycle and a house<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-13528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13528","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=13528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19023,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13528\/revisions\/19023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13528"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=13528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}