{"id":23685,"date":"2025-02-04T18:36:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T01:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/former-telluride-ski-patroller-convicted-of-sending-dozens-of-threats\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T01:36:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T01:36:39","slug":"former-telluride-ski-patroller-convicted-of-sending-dozens-of-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/former-telluride-ski-patroller-convicted-of-sending-dozens-of-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Telluride ski patroller convicted of sending dozens of threats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e9979376-946f-5ebb-8d1a-f74954de5466&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"700\" height=\"380\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A federal jury has convicted Bryan Cornwell, a 41-year-old former Telluride ski patroller, of repeatedly sending death threats to a law enforcement official based in Grand Junction.<\/p>\n<p>Cornwell worked at Telluride for six years \u2013 from November 2015 to February 2021 \u2013 until he was terminated. According to Nancy Clark, a spokesperson for the resort, no one currently employed at Telluride \u201cknows the details of his position, nor the details of his termination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to a news release from the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office, the former Norwood local was convicted of two counts of transmitting threats after he sent more than 80 violent and graphic messages. The jury found Corwell not guilty on a third count of the same charge.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said Cornwell\u2019s emails \u2013 sent between August and October 2023 \u2013 included repeated threats to kill and seriously harm the official.<\/p>\n<p>At the time he sent the threatening messages, Cornwell was awaiting sentencing in a separate case where he was accused of threatening to blow up the San Miguel County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, people can\u2019t be going around threatening to blow up public buildings and making threats to kill a peace officer,\u201d Susan Lilly, a spokesperson for the San Miguel County Sheriff\u2019s Office, told CPR News in a statement. \u201cThese are serious terrorist acts, and we are pleased to see Mr. Cornwall convicted in a case which could have had a very different outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cornwell will be sentenced in Durango on April 2 and faces years in federal prison.<\/p>\n<p>CPR News reached out to both the District Attorney\u2019s Office and the City of Grand Junction \u2013 both of which declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/\" id=\"link-22e70a8bcd8bc5e1ebd96ba5b1749b08\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em id=\"emphasis-699902bdf73b43c2a7a12f62b7f5b7dc\">To read more stories from Colorado Public Radio, visit www.cpr.org<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>threatened to kill, harm law enforcement official<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-23685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23685","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=23685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23685"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=23685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}