{"id":15939,"date":"2025-10-26T18:54:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/hatchet-wielding-man-suspected-of-threatening-woman-smashing-durango-motel-room\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:53:20","slug":"hatchet-wielding-man-suspected-of-threatening-woman-smashing-durango-motel-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/hatchet-wielding-man-suspected-of-threatening-woman-smashing-durango-motel-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatchet-wielding man suspected of threatening woman, smashing Durango motel room"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=192b808a-c004-553f-8e12-90d597360ae3&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A man was arrested on suspicion of felony menacing after he threatened a woman, smashing a motel room and had a multihour standoff with police Saturday night at Durango Lodge.<\/p>\n<p>The Durango Police Department was notified at about 6 p.m. that a man with a hatchet was threatening a woman in the motel hallway, said city spokesperson Tom Sluis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was swinging it around and saying next time he\u2019ll kill her,\u201d Sluis said. \u201cShe did not know him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sluis said officers arrived and knocked on the man\u2019s motel room door. He answered holding the hatchet, threatened to attack them, then slammed the door and locked himself inside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSWAT was called due to the nature of the crime with a weapon,\u201d Sluis said. \u201cAfter a few hours, he exited his hotel room and surrendered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No force was used to take the man into custody, Sluis said. His identity had not been released as of Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the room, officers found everything had been smashed with the hatchet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only damage to the hotel was done by him,\u201d Sluis said.<\/p>\n<p>Because the man threatened a woman and officers with a hatchet, the man faces a felony charge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMenacing is a class one misdemeanor, but it is a class five felony if committed (with) the use of a firearm, knife or bludgeon, or a simulated firearm, knife or bludgeon,\u201d Sluis said.<\/p>\n<p>s<em id=\"emphasis-31a6459ab9caec5ce6294b5333de407e\"><a href=\"mailto:edmondson@durangoherald.com\">edmondson@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspect arrested after hourslong standoff with police<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[168,1065,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-15939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-crime","tag-durango-police-department","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15939","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=15939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19928,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15939\/revisions\/19928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15939"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=15939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}