{"id":49899,"date":"2020-12-11T15:37:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T22:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-burglar-chooses-prison-over-halfway-house\/"},"modified":"2020-12-11T22:37:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T22:37:18","slug":"durango-burglar-chooses-prison-over-halfway-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-burglar-chooses-prison-over-halfway-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Durango burglar chooses prison over halfway house"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=f244d243-bdc0-4e0b-8cdf-5f64017caf6e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"469\" height=\"625\" alt=\"Nolan\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Nolan<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A man known to be living homeless in Durango was sentenced Friday to six years in prison after allegedly entering numerous homes, including the room of a 14-year-old girl, during summer 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Chad Nolan, who was 35 at the time of his arrest, <a href=\"https:\/\/durangoherald.com\/articles\/283284\">started breaking into multiple homes in June 2019<\/a>. As his behavior \u201cheated up,\u201d authorities launched an extensive search for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had no conscience about where he was going or concern if people were there,\u201d Durango Police Department Cmdr. Rita Warfield said at the time. \u201cThat was the scary thing about him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many of the break-ins, the police department said, happened south of College Drive.<\/p>\n<p>In one instance, police say Nolan broke into a vacation rental and was found by the owner of the property naked, apparently having taken a shower. In another, police say Nolan broke into a home, going into a 14-year-old girl\u2019s room.<\/p>\n<p>The police department stationed officers in different areas of downtown Durango to look for Nolan. Authorities received a report he was walking the grid in downtown Durango, and he was arrested June 27, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Sixth Judicial District Judge William Herringer on Friday offered Nolan a choice between eight years at Hilltop House, a community corrections center in Durango, or six years at the Department of Corrections.<\/p>\n<p>Nolan, however, said entering a community corrections program in Durango could lead to a relapse into drug use. He asked for a community corrections program outside the area.<\/p>\n<p>The District Attorney\u2019s Office opposed going through the process of sending Nolan out of the community, arguing the case has been going on long enough and the request should have been filed previously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese cases have been lingering for a very long time,\u201d Herringer agreed.<\/p>\n<p>Having to decide between community corrections or prison, Nolan chose prison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy main concern is relapse,\u201d Nolan said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the court, Nolan took responsibility for his actions and said he was not a violent person. His attorney said Nolan suffered from drug addiction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll I can say is I\u2019ve made some very poor choices,\u201d Nolan said. \u201cI will do everything that I can to recover from this and turn a new leaf and not ever repeat these mistakes again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nolan must also pay restitution, which will be determined at a later date.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>went on trespassing spree in summer 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[133,168,1065,533],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-49899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-durango-police-department","tag-prison"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49899","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=49899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49899"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=49899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}