{"id":33505,"date":"2023-06-09T16:16:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T16:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-convicted-of-third-degree-assault-in-cortez\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:10:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:10:50","slug":"man-convicted-of-third-degree-assault-in-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-convicted-of-third-degree-assault-in-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Man convicted of third-degree assault in Cortez"},"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>On June 8, Tyler Begay was convicted on one count of third-degree assault and one count of violation of a protection order at a jury trial.<\/p>\n<p>New 22nd Judicial District Attorney Christian Hatfield and Assistant DA Jason Eley won delivered the conviction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter several hundred trials, I can say with certainty that our system of jury trials is the best in the world. I thank the citizens of Montezuma County for their service. Justice was done,\u201d Hatfield said in a news release from the DA\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>On May 25, Begay turned himself in at the Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Office on a warrant. Officer Trevor Robertson responded to serve Begay his warrant before leaving him in the care of jail staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>himself in on warrant<\/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":[29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-33505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33505","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=33505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82236,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33505\/revisions\/82236"}],"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=33505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33505"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=33505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}