{"id":48978,"date":"2021-01-28T19:08:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T02:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/hitchhiker-near-cortez-gets-three-years-for-stabbing-driver\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:45:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:45:43","slug":"hitchhiker-near-cortez-gets-three-years-for-stabbing-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/hitchhiker-near-cortez-gets-three-years-for-stabbing-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitchhiker near Cortez gets three years for stabbing driver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=4b812ad6-3189-4ce4-938e-87888a4823cc&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1200\" height=\"783\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>ALBUQUERQUE \u2013 Travis Clitso, 25, of Pinon, Arizona, was sentenced in federal court on Jan. 22 to three years and one month in prison for assault with a dangerous weapon in Indian Country.<\/p>\n<p>According to a news release from the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in Albuquerque, Clitso had pleaded guilty on Oct. 8. Court records indicated Clitso was a member of the Navajo Nation.<\/p>\n<p>Under the plea agreement, he admitted to hitchhiking near Cortez, on Feb. 6, 2019, and a driver agreed to give him a ride. The driver and Clitso later stopped at a gas station in Shiprock, New Mexico, where Clitso pulled out a knife and stabbed the driver in the throat, the press release said. Clitso fled, but police officers found and arrested him that day.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency medical personnel flew him to Albuquerque for emergency treatment, and he spent several days in the hospital for his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Clitso said he was tired and did not want to get out of the victim\u2019s vehicle, the Farmington <em>Daily Times <\/em>reported. Clitso said he stabbed the driver out of frustration,<\/p>\n<p>The driver was not identified, although his birth year was listed as 1949.<\/p>\n<p>The Farmington office of the FBI and the Navajo Nation Department of Public Safety investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Aliberti prosecuted the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hospitalized for three days<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[168,28,1655,138],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-48978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-crime","tag-headlines","tag-navajo-nation","tag-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48978","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=48978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87499,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48978\/revisions\/87499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48978"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=48978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}