{"id":29462,"date":"2024-01-29T20:45:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T03:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/ouray-police-chief-placed-on-leave-amid-sexual-assault-investigation-involving-stepson\/"},"modified":"2024-01-30T03:45:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T03:45:53","slug":"ouray-police-chief-placed-on-leave-amid-sexual-assault-investigation-involving-stepson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/ouray-police-chief-placed-on-leave-amid-sexual-assault-investigation-involving-stepson\/","title":{"rendered":"Ouray police chief placed on leave amid sexual assault investigation involving stepson"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=db3efb50-e07e-57b7-9b59-38d6a353d784&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"Welcome to Ouray sign, seen here in 2022. (Hart Van Denburg\/CPR News)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Welcome to Ouray sign, seen here in 2022. (Hart Van Denburg\/CPR News)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Hart Van Denburg\/CPR News<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The city announced the move Monday, naming Sgt. Gary Ray as acting chief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis administrative leave is pending the outcome of the criminal proceedings of the alleged rape involving the Chief\u2019s stepson at the Chief\u2019s personal residence,\u201d the city\u2019s release said.<\/p>\n<p>The case drew\u00a0statewide attention\u00a0after copies of the <em id=\"emphasis-cabd6383d30dd472075781ebbe9bd1ff\">Ouray County Plaindealer<\/em> were stolen the day an issue detailing the allegations\u00a0was published.<\/p>\n<p>The case in question involves the\u00a0alleged\u00a0rape of a 17-year-old at a party in Wood\u2019s house in May of 2023. In December, three people were arrested in connection with the case: Gabriel Trujillo, Ashton Whittington, and Chief Wood\u2019s stepson, who was a minor at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Wood joined the department in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Ouray sign, seen here in 2022. (Hart Van Denburg\/CPR News)Hart Van Denburg\/CPR News The city announced the move Monday, naming Sgt. Gary Ray as acting chief. \u201cThis administrative leave is pending the outcome of the criminal proceedings of the alleged rape involving the Chief\u2019s stepson at the Chief\u2019s personal residence,\u201d the city\u2019s release [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[120,28,3150,1489],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-29462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-colorado","tag-headlines","tag-newspaper-and-magazine","tag-ouray"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29462","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=29462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29462"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=29462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}