{"id":29224,"date":"2024-02-14T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/duo-accused-of-drug-trafficking-scheduled-to-appear-in-court-later-this-month\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T00:51:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:51:40","slug":"duo-accused-of-drug-trafficking-scheduled-to-appear-in-court-later-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/duo-accused-of-drug-trafficking-scheduled-to-appear-in-court-later-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Duo accused of drug trafficking scheduled to appear in court later this month"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Corinthia Morningstar Begay and Robert Lawrence Cross were arrested in Cortez on Wednesday, Dec. 27. (Courtesy photo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

Two alleged drug traffickers are scheduled to appear in court later this month.<\/p>\n

Corinthia Morningstar Begay will appear in the 22nd Judicial District Court for a bond and arraignment hearing on Feb. 27, starting at 2:30 p.m. Meanwhile, Robert Lawrence Cross will have a plea hearing at 9 a.m. Feb. 22.<\/p>\n

Cross and Begay were arrested in Cortez on Dec. 27.<\/p>\n

At her most recent hearing last Friday in front of Judge Todd Plewe, Begay was given a personal recognizance bond so she can also deal with her active cases in La Plata County.<\/p>\n

Begay\u2019s counsel, who appeared via Webex from La Plata County, said he wished to waive the preliminary hearing as he believes they are close to a resolution.<\/p>\n

While he said her cases in Montezuma County are close to being resolved, her charges in La Plata County are still pending.<\/p>\n

Because Begay is from Durango, Plewe informed her attorney that she wouldn\u2019t be a candidate for the judicial district\u2019s drug court because she would have to live in the district, but she may qualify for a probationary sentence.<\/p>\n

After waiving the right for a preliminary hearing and setting the PR bond at $5,000, Plewe asked that Begay\u2019s attorney \u201ctake the wheel,\u201d ensuring that she makes it to all of her required court appearances in Montezuma and La Plata counties.<\/p>\n

When Cross and Begay were arrested, they allegedly had methamphetamine, heroin and other illegal narcotics on them, totaling 62 grams.<\/p>\n

The duo\u2019s also accused of possessing a knife and a modified BB gun. The vehicle they were found in was reported stolen.<\/p>\n

They were arrested on outstanding warrants.<\/p>\n

When Begay was taken to the hospital after her arrest, she allegedly had cocaine and meth in her system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lawrence Cross, Corinthia Morningstar Begay allegedly found with 62 grams of meth, heroin and other narcotics in December<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,133,168,969,28,60,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-29224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-drug-trafficking","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29224","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=29224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80673,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29224\/revisions\/80673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29224"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=29224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}