{"id":50974,"date":"2020-10-15T23:50:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T05:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-marshal-replaces-drone-for-teen-who-warned-about-errant-flight\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:54:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:54:01","slug":"mancos-marshal-replaces-drone-for-teen-who-warned-about-errant-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-marshal-replaces-drone-for-teen-who-warned-about-errant-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancos marshal replaces drone for teen who warned about errant flight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=53931e01-350c-4b16-9377-e4ba7cdcc023&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1365\" alt=\"Young Mancos resident Dylan Steerman, 13, was rewarded with a drone from the Mancos marshal and the Board of Trustees for alerting the Marshal\u2019s Office when he lost his drone to ensure he didn\u2019t cause an accident.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Young Mancos resident Dylan Steerman, 13, was rewarded with a drone from the Mancos marshal and the Board of Trustees for alerting the Marshal\u2019s Office when he lost his drone to ensure he didn\u2019t cause an accident.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Emily Hayes\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Mancos Marshal\u2019s Office and the Mancos Board of Trustees recognized a young resident for doing the right thing at their meeting Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Steerman, 13, was flying his drone at his grandmother\u2019s house and lost sight of it as it was flying.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan called the Marshal\u2019s Office, concerned that he had caused a wreck or damaged something, said Marshal Justen Goodall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the type of behavior we want to award,\u201d Goodall said.<\/p>\n<p>The marshal commended Dylan for his truthfulness and \u201cwillingness to put himself out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Board of Trustees and Goodall presented Dylan with a new drone at the meeting for doing the right thing and notifying local law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very proud of him,\u201d said LeRoy Tafoya, Dylan\u2019s father.<\/p>\n<p>Robin Bays, Dylan\u2019s grandmother, said it was Dylan\u2019s idea to contact the Marshal\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat didn\u2019t even cross my mind,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The drone has not been found.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:ehayes@the-journal.com\">ehayes@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshal Justen Goodall wanted to reward behavior<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,83,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-50974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-mancos","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50974","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=50974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87865,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50974\/revisions\/87865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50974"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=50974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}