{"id":49139,"date":"2021-01-22T02:05:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T09:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bond-set-at-500000-for-man-who-allegedly-stabbed-girlfriend\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:45:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:45:54","slug":"bond-set-at-500000-for-man-who-allegedly-stabbed-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bond-set-at-500000-for-man-who-allegedly-stabbed-girlfriend\/","title":{"rendered":"Bond set at $500,000 for man who allegedly stabbed girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=906d127c-9a49-44ce-be96-94e242e3a10c&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>A man accused of<\/p>\n<p>The defendant, 29-year-old Christopher Wheat, was charged with attempted second-degree murder, first-degree assault, felony menacing, aggravated motor vehicle theft in the second degree, child abuse and obstructing a police officer.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining four charges are \u201ccrime of violence sentence enhancers\u201d related to the charges of first-degree assault and attempted second-degree murder, District Attorney Matthew Margeson told <em>The Journal<\/em>. In Colorado, judges may impose enhanced sentences on individuals convicted of violent crimes if the offender used a deadly weapon or caused serious bodily injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are extremely serious charges,\u201d Margeson said in court Thursday morning. \u201cThe defendant, in the peoples\u2019 opinion, did everything in his power to attempt to kill an individual, stabbing her multiple times with a knife, so much so that the knife actually broke. The defendant stole a vehicle after that. After taking that vehicle, and the keys for that vehicle, at knifepoint, the defendant returned later with the vehicle. When police officers arrived, he grabbed his son and put him in a very dangerous situation. Hence the child abuse charges that are filed in this case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wheat\u2019s bond was set at $500,000.<\/p>\n<p>Montezuma County Court Judge JenniLynn Lawrence said Wheat was a \u201cgenuine flight risk\u201d because of the severity of the charges and the strength of the evidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat degree of flight risk, that degree of culpability on the underlying offense, paired together with the fact that Mr. Wheat at the time had two cases pending before this court, albeit traffic cases, fully justifies the bond that was set in this case,\u201d Lawrence said.<\/p>\n<p>Wheat\u2019s preliminary hearing in Montezuma County Court is scheduled for March 4.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:anicotera@the-journal.com\">anicotera@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\">This article was republished on Jan. 22 to correctly report that Christopher Wheat\u2019s bond was set at $500,000.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preliminary hearing for Christopher Wheat set for March 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-49139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49139","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=49139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87525,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49139\/revisions\/87525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49139"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=49139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}