{"id":47794,"date":"2021-03-20T15:38:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T21:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-man-arrested-after-driving-into-ditch-at-roadblock\/"},"modified":"2021-03-20T21:38:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T21:38:36","slug":"durango-man-arrested-after-driving-into-ditch-at-roadblock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-man-arrested-after-driving-into-ditch-at-roadblock\/","title":{"rendered":"Durango man arrested after driving into ditch at roadblock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0e15087d-8d4b-47b5-8ffb-608e7df95cd9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1413\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A Durango man arrested Friday night faces charges including DUI and eluding officers after allegedly driving into a ditch to avoid a roadblock and bumping into a police officer\u2019s vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>About 9:34 p.m., officers with the Durango Police Department were dispatched to a residence on the north end of town regarding a possible violation of a protection order, said police Cmdr. Jacob Dunlop. The victim led officers to believe that Jesse Nelson, 41, had violated the order and had driven a white SUV from the residence while intoxicated.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly afterward, a resident called in a report of a white SUV swerving into oncoming traffic. As officers drove to where they thought Nelson might be staying, an officer noticed a white SUV following her vehicle very closely and weaving within its lane.<\/p>\n<p>The officer maneuvered around behind the vehicle and made a traffic stop on County Road 206 about 10:07 p.m. The officer identified the driver as Nelson and suspected that he was under the influence of alcohol or drugs.<\/p>\n<p>But when the officer asked Nelson to step out of the SUV, Nelson refused and attempted to drive away.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson fled toward the dead end on County Road 206 while additional officers, from the La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Colorado State Patrol, set up a roadblock with their vehicles near the location of the traffic stop.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson swerved into a ditch to avoid the roadblock, and as he tried to leave the ditch, struck a police vehicle at less than 5 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson allegedly resisted officers as they took him into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Dunlop said Nelson was booked into jail on charges of violation of a protection order and harassment, both with a domestic violence enhancer; following too closely; weaving; DUI; vehicular eluding (a Class 5 felony); and resisting arrest.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported. The DPD vehicle sustained minor damage.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:ngonzales@durangoherald.com\">ngonzales@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\">This article was published March 24 to report that the suspect\u2019s vehicle bumped into an officer\u2019s vehicle instead of backing into it.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incident ends with minor collision on County Road 206<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1065,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-47794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-durango-police-department","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47794","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=47794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47794"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=47794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}