{"id":40894,"date":"2022-04-30T01:27:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T07:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-police-arrest-juvenile-on-suspicion-of-gun-offenses\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:57:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:57:59","slug":"cortez-police-arrest-juvenile-on-suspicion-of-gun-offenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-police-arrest-juvenile-on-suspicion-of-gun-offenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez police arrest juvenile on suspicion of gun offenses"},"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>A 14-year-old boy was arrested Wednesday night in Cortez after allegedly threatening a man with a gun in Veterans Park, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Cortez Police Department officers responded to a call at 10:22 p.m. regarding a fight in the park involving a firearm. They found people running from the scene and stopped and questioned several of them.<\/p>\n<p>A juvenile was detained, and a search revealed a handgun in his front waistband, according to the police report.<\/p>\n<p>After checking the serial number, a Cortez dispatcher informed the officer that the gun had been reported stolen from a Cortez residence weeks earlier.<\/p>\n<p>According to the incident report, a group of people were walking through Veterans Park after skateboarding and said they were harassed by the juvenile and another person, who wanted to fight.<\/p>\n<p>The report states a witness told police the juvenile pulled a handgun from his waistband, \u201cpointed the gun at him\u201d and threatened to shoot him.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody was injured, and no shots were fired, said Assistant Police Chief Andy Brock.<\/p>\n<p>The juvenile told police that someone had threatened to fight him.<\/p>\n<p>He met with his mother and grandmother at the Cortez police station. He was arrested on suspicion of menacing, theft, carrying a concealed weapon, prohibited use of a firearm and possession of a handgun by a juvenile, according to the police incident report.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to the Grand Mesa Youth Detention Center in Grand Junction. Because he is a juvenile, his name was not released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incident occurred in Veterans Park in Cortez<\/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":[21,168,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-40894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-crime","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40894","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=40894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84796,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40894\/revisions\/84796"}],"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=40894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40894"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=40894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}