{"id":45585,"date":"2021-07-27T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T03:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/patrons-cleared-early-sunday-from-durango-tavern-to-prevent-fighting\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:26:17","slug":"patrons-cleared-early-sunday-from-durango-tavern-to-prevent-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/patrons-cleared-early-sunday-from-durango-tavern-to-prevent-fighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrons cleared early Sunday from Durango tavern to prevent fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e2045bf2-183c-5da3-8439-5b9fd3cac050&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"El Rancho Tavern closed early Sunday after tensions arose among patrons and employees worried a fight was brewing. A crowd of about 100 patrons milled around the bar early Sunday morning, but dispersed when police arrived. (Patrick Armijo\/Durango Herald)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">El Rancho Tavern closed early Sunday after tensions arose among patrons and employees worried a fight was brewing. A crowd of about 100 patrons milled around the bar early Sunday morning, but dispersed when police arrived. (Patrick Armijo\/Durango Herald)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Numerous patrons were cleared from El Rancho Tavern in the wee hours Sunday morning after employees suspected a fight was brewing, according to the Durango Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Durango Police Department Sgt. Devin Conroy said about 100 people were milling outside of El Rancho when officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p>No fight occurred, and patrons were compliant and dispersed after officers arrived, Conroy said.<\/p>\n<p>El Rancho\u2019s employees decided to close early to prevent any problems later, Conroy said.<\/p>\n<p>Chip Lyle said the matter involved a couple of men who began shouting when the last call for alcohol was announced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe asked them to leave, and that was about the extent of it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the incident did not involve two groups that were arguing.<\/p>\n<p>Lyle said he has worked hard to clean up behavior in the bar, and the report overstated the nature of the incident, harming his efforts to rehabilitate the tavern\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n<p>Conroy said, \u201cWhen officers showed up, nothing happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conroy said he was unsure about what the dispute was about.<\/p>\n<p>A few hours later, DPD received a report of a fight outside El Rancho, but responding officers could not locate anyone involved in a brawl, Conroy said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody was identified, and nobody came forward,\u201d Conroy said.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-4380568a65b968a67e04f197e59c1850\"><a href=\"mailto:parmijo@durangoherald.com\">parmijo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>he is working to clean up behavior at bar <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[314,1065,28,52,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-45585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-downtown-durango","tag-durango-police-department","tag-headlines","tag-law-enforcement","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45585","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=45585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86555,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45585\/revisions\/86555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45585"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=45585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}