{"id":23064,"date":"2025-03-18T11:08:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T17:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-suspected-in-a-cortez-car-chase-that-injured-an-officer-woman-and-child\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:24:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:24:32","slug":"man-suspected-in-a-cortez-car-chase-that-injured-an-officer-woman-and-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-suspected-in-a-cortez-car-chase-that-injured-an-officer-woman-and-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Man suspected in a Cortez car chase that injured an officer, woman and child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e7f33294-7c90-485b-b53c-89791e00f427&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"Montezuma County Combined Courts, including the 22nd Judicial District court. Former finance director Katheryn Moss\u2019s arraignment date was set with the district court for Aug. 27.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Montezuma County Combined Courts, including the 22nd Judicial District court. Former finance director Katheryn Moss\u2019s arraignment date was set with the district court for Aug. 27.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Montezuma County District Judge William Furse upheld bond and scheduled a preliminary hearing and pretrial conference for a man arrested after a car chase that left a police officer, woman and child with injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing last week in 22nd Judicial District Court, Rosco Hampson\u2019s attorney asked that he be released from jail to maintain his job and home.<\/p>\n<p>Furse declined to modify Hampson\u2019s bond, citing the seriousness of his charges, which include vehicular eluding causing injury, reckless driving and a revoked driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n<p>Furse then scheduled a preliminary hearing and pretrial conference for April 3 at 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred Feb. 16. When Sgt. Vance Carver attempted to pull over a Buick Sedan with a mud-covered windshield, the vehicle reportedly sped up on Market Street, exceeding the speed limit. According to Carver\u2019s police report, the Buick ran stop signs at Montezuma Avenue and Empire Street, leaving Carver too far behind to catch up.<\/p>\n<p>At the Ash Street intersection, Carver saw the Buick\u2019s \u201centire exhaust system\u201d lying in the eastbound lane. As he moved it out of the roadway, officer Andrew Archer reported that he recorded the Buick\u2019s license plate number as the car sped past the Cortez Police Department station.<\/p>\n<p>Officer Michael Rivas then informed dispatch that he had taken up the pursuit, but collided with a vehicle at State and Empire streets. The collision with the vehicle, which carried three people, left a woman, child and Rivas with \u201cminor injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Buick continued east on Empire.<\/p>\n<p>A few days later, Carver interviewed the registered owner of the Buick, who said the car was at Phil\u2019s World with flat tires. She said Hampson had access to the vehicle the day of the police chase.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the chase, Hampson had two warrants for his arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pursuit, officer hits car containing three people<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,168,28,60,29,51,254,76],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-23064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-crime","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter","tag-police","tag-road-crash","tag-u-s-22nd-judicial-district"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23064","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=23064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77962,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23064\/revisions\/77962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23064"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=23064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}