{"id":24922,"date":"2024-11-06T02:58:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T09:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/district-attorney-selected-in-22nd-judicial-district\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:04:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:04:56","slug":"district-attorney-selected-in-22nd-judicial-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/district-attorney-selected-in-22nd-judicial-district\/","title":{"rendered":"District attorney selected in 22nd Judicial District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=4b13509b-aa94-5702-8484-8ea09077eb2e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" alt=\"It was Christian Hatfield (left) versus Jeremy Reed (right) in the 22nd Judicial District election. (Courtesy photos)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">It was Christian Hatfield (left) versus Jeremy Reed (right) in the 22nd Judicial District election. (Courtesy photos)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Unofficial, preliminary votes updated as of Nov. 9 predict Jeremy Reed will be the new district attorney in the 22nd Judicial District.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican leads the race with 66.07% of the vote in Montezuma County, and 78.13% in Dolores County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to getting back to the DA office and to start working to protect the communities of Montezuma and Dolores counties,\u201d Reed said.<\/p>\n<p>Reed was deputy DA at the office until November 2023, when he was let go after voicing his intentions to run for DA against Hatfield.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Hatfield, the district\u2019s prior DA appointed by Gov. Jared Polis in 2023, got 33.93% of the vote in Montezuma County and 21.87% in Dolores County.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat had a rough run up to Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 30, Hatfield crashed his SUV near Farmington and was suspected to be under the influence of drugs, alcohol or both when that happened.<\/p>\n<p>Though he has yet to be charged for that crash \u2013 the San Juan County sheriff\u2019s Office hasn\u2019t yet received his blood test results \u2013 a new case opened up in October after Hatfield was involved in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-journal.com\/articles\/case-against-montezuma-da-stalls-new-investigation-begins\/\" id=\"link-0ed8029396e609e26bd79f4eec2de284\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">string of texts <\/a>in which he criticized a <em id=\"emphasis-b3f2b22b97e089487f2eb800941dbb85\">Journal<\/em> reporter\u2019s beliefs and education, and a retired Durango lawyer made a sexist comment about the reporter, who was included in the text string.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy immediate priority is to make sure we can continue with services and work on rebuilding trust and confidence in the DA\u2019s office,\u201d said Reed. \u201cThat\u2019s important.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unofficial results say Jeremy Reed beat incumbent Christian Hatfield<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24923,"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-24922","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\/24922","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=24922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78728,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24922\/revisions\/78728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24922"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=24922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}