{"id":37982,"date":"2022-10-08T02:00:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/alleged-trespasser-held-at-gunpoint-at-mcphee-campground\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:41:15","slug":"alleged-trespasser-held-at-gunpoint-at-mcphee-campground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/alleged-trespasser-held-at-gunpoint-at-mcphee-campground\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged trespasser held at gunpoint at McPhee campground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=eff9deca-8798-5a8c-aefe-97a0c3149696&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"720\" height=\"400\" alt=\"An alleged trespasser was held at gunpoint at McPhee campground Sept. 28, according to the Montezuma County Sheriff's Office. (Courtesy photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">An alleged trespasser was held at gunpoint at McPhee campground Sept. 28, according to the Montezuma County Sheriff's Office. (Courtesy photo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A Montezuma County sheriff\u2019s deputy responded to an incident early morning Sept. 28 at McPhee Campground in which a firefighter reported holding a man at gunpoint after he entered the cab of the firefighter\u2019s truck.<\/p>\n<p>According to an incident report by Deputy Peter Schmalz, the suspect had knocked on the back door of the firefighter\u2019s camper at 4 a.m. and the firefighter told him to leave the campsite.<\/p>\n<p>Moments later, the suspect was heard in the back seat of the truck, and the firefighter pointed his gun at him and directed him to a picnic table.<\/p>\n<p>Upon the deputy\u2019s arrival, the firefighter had removed the firearm\u2019s magazine, placing it on the ground, and stepping away.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect told the deputy he was intoxicated and did not remember anything from the time he and his friend returned to their campsite that night to when he had a gun pointed at him.<\/p>\n<p>He said he had consumed multiple shots of liquor had no recollection of entering the vehicle or why he had been in there.<\/p>\n<p>No citations were issued.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was given a ride to his campsite by the deputy and counseled with his friends about his behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>firearm after man entered truck at 4 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,280,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-37982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-mcphee-reservoir","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37982","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=37982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83865,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37982\/revisions\/83865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37982"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=37982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}