{"id":51205,"date":"2020-10-02T18:50:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T00:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-mexico-man-suspected-of-coughing-in-clerks-face-at-durango-hotel\/"},"modified":"2020-10-03T00:50:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T00:50:09","slug":"new-mexico-man-suspected-of-coughing-in-clerks-face-at-durango-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-mexico-man-suspected-of-coughing-in-clerks-face-at-durango-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico man suspected of coughing in clerk\u2019s face at Durango hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e9198320-4611-42d4-8c67-a3dbf4e32a4a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"831\" height=\"467\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A 26-year-old San Juan County, New Mexico, man is suspected of coughing in a hotel clerk\u2019s face after refusing to wear a mask during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Durango Police Department Cmdr. Jacob Dunlop said two people who reserved rooms at the Fairfield Inn &amp; Suites at 21719 U.S. Highway 160 in West Durango walked into the hotel to check in not wearing masks Sept. 19.<\/p>\n<p>The hotel clerk asked the guests, who appeared intoxicated, to put on masks, as required by city ordinance. They then pulled up their shirts to try to cover their face, but that didn\u2019t work, Dunlop said.<\/p>\n<p>When the clerk asked again for them to put on masks, one of the men stuck his head around a partition at the front desk counter and started coughing in the clerk\u2019s face, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe composed herself, got them checked in and contacted law enforcement,\u201d Dunlop said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived at the scene to take the hotel clerk\u2019s report, but were pulled away for another incident, Dunlop said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe desk clerk was shaken up about the incident,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is the type of situation where a business employee is just trying to enforce the city ordinance, and follow the guidelines of the business, and a gentleman used poor judgment and took it out on her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officers are now working to serve the man, who has been cooperative, a citation for disorderly conduct, which should happen in the next few days, he said. Dunlop declined to release the man\u2019s name until the citation has been served.<\/p>\n<p>Dunlop said officers respond to conflicts about face coverings with some frequency, but it is rare for situations to elevate to the level it did at the Fairfield Inn &amp; Suites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething as flagrant as this is pretty rare,\u201d he said.<\/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>he appeared intoxicated, will be charged with disorderly conduct<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[685,168,1065,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-51205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-crime","tag-durango-police-department","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51205","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=51205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51205"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=51205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}