{"id":36617,"date":"2022-12-27T16:14:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T23:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/police-seek-suspect-in-towaoc\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:32:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:32:40","slug":"police-seek-suspect-in-towaoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/police-seek-suspect-in-towaoc\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seek suspect in Towaoc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=128787ad-3319-5157-b8e5-3ba8545f7917&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Blotter lights\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Blotter lights<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Deputies with the Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Office responded to Towaoc on Monday afternoon to assist the Bureau of Indian Affairs police with a suspect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe BIA has a person at gunpoint and called for our assistance,\u201d Montezuma County Sheriff Steve Nowlin said. \u201cI sent two deputies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incident began around 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Nowlin said he was informed an adult male allegedly pointed a gun at a BIA officer in a residential neighborhood in Towaoc on the Ute Mountain Reservation.<\/p>\n<p>The BIA officer reportedly drew his firearm and attempted to hold the subject at gunpoint, Nowlin said. No shots were fired.<\/p>\n<p>The man fled the scene on foot and ran into a wooded area, Nowlin said. Police began a search for the subject who was reportedly wearing a dark shirt and khaki pants.<\/p>\n<p>Around 4:30 p.m., Nowlin called his deputies off the search because of the dangers of seeking a possibly armed man in a wooded area after sundown.<\/p>\n<p>The identity of the suspect is known by BIA police and an arrest warrant is being sought, Nowlin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>allegedly pointed a gun at a BIA officer, said Montezuma County Sheriff Steve Nowlin <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29,144],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-36617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-towaoc"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36617","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=36617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83401,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36617\/revisions\/83401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36617"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=36617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}