{"id":23459,"date":"2025-02-20T11:43:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/arizona-man-faces-trial-in-cortez-after-hitting-cars-sligo-wall-in-may\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:36:20","slug":"arizona-man-faces-trial-in-cortez-after-hitting-cars-sligo-wall-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/arizona-man-faces-trial-in-cortez-after-hitting-cars-sligo-wall-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona man faces trial in Cortez after hitting cars, Sligo Wall in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=381d1662-8bee-5063-8bdb-ccaa01e8ec54&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1075\" alt=\"The Sligo Wall after repairs to damage that occurred in May. Cody Mallett allegedly crashed his vehicle into the wall after passing out. Marijuana and open alcohol containers were found in the vehicle. (Kelly Codner\/Courtesy photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Sligo Wall after repairs to damage that occurred in May. Cody Mallett allegedly crashed his vehicle into the wall after passing out. Marijuana and open alcohol containers were found in the vehicle. (Kelly Codner\/Courtesy photo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Cody Mallett, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to reckless driving and DUI charges after reportedly hitting hit four cars and the Sligo Wall last year in Cortez. He now faces a jury trial in June.<\/p>\n<p>Mallett appeared in court via Webex from his home state of Arizona. He is out on bond, according to District Attorney Jeremy Reed.<\/p>\n<p>Montezuma County Judge Ian MacLaren set Mallett\u2019s pretrial conference for June 17 at 3 p.m. The trial is expected to run June 25 at 3 p.m. and June 26 at 8:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The crash that damaged the wall at Shiloh Steakhouse, 5 S. Veach St., occurred May 9.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Cortez Police Department, Mallett hit the driver\u2019s side of a vehicle while driving west in the 2000 block of Main Street. His vehicle then went \u201cairborne\u201d in the parking lot of LivWell Marijuana Dispensary and maintained an uncontrolled path into the Shiloh parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>He then hit the restaurant\u2019s access ramp and went airborne again, nearly hitting two bystanders, police reports said. He hit three parked vehicles in the lot, then hit the brick retaining wall on the west side of the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Mallett reportedly told police that he had passed out and didn\u2019t wake up until he had collided with Sligo Wall.<\/p>\n<p>Open marijuana and open alcohol containers were found in Mallett\u2019s vehicle. The Arizona resident was cited with driving under the influence of drugs, reckless driving, and open alcohol and marijuana containers in a motor vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The wall\u2019s construction started Oct. 21 and was finished late last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driver\u2019s path through two parking lots involved four other cars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,168,28,29,254,76],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-23459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-crime","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","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\/23459","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=23459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78131,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23459\/revisions\/78131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23459"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=23459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}