{"id":52294,"date":"2020-08-07T16:43:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T22:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/california-man-arrested-for-assault-after-fight-on-mountain-pass-in-san-juan-mountains\/"},"modified":"2020-08-07T22:43:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T22:43:47","slug":"california-man-arrested-for-assault-after-fight-on-mountain-pass-in-san-juan-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/california-man-arrested-for-assault-after-fight-on-mountain-pass-in-san-juan-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"California man arrested for assault after fight on mountain pass in San Juan Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b582288b-01e6-4e80-9bb1-f7418b10ba09&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"756\" alt=\"A California man has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting another man on Imogene Pass over a disagreement about who had the right of way.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A California man has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting another man on Imogene Pass over a disagreement about who had the right of way.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of im me\/via Flickr<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A 38-year-old California man was arrested for assault after an altercation with another driver on a high-country mountain pass in the San Juan Mountains over who had the right of way.<\/p>\n<p>Ouray County Undersheriff Tammy Stroup said a man identified as Sammy Spaccamonti, of San Diego, was driving a Jeep Rubicon downhill on the Ouray side of Imogene Pass on Saturday when he encountered a car driving uphill.<\/p>\n<p>The passenger in the Toyota Tacoma going uphill, a 42-year-old man from Montrose, got out of the car and was going to ask Spaccamonti to move when a verbal altercation occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Stroup said according to backcountry travel etiquette, vehicles traveling uphill have the right of way.<\/p>\n<p>Spaccamonti allegedly got out of his Jeep, and punched the man, causing him to lose consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was first reported by the <em>Ouray County Plaindealer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The victim eventually made it back to town and notified authorities of the alleged assault. He was taken to Montrose Memorial Hospital, Stroup said.<\/p>\n<p>A Ouray County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputy walked the town\u2019s Main Street attempting to locate Spaccamonti, who was found at a local brewery and taken into custody without incident.<\/p>\n<p>Stroup said Spaccamonti was taken to the Montrose County Jail on a $2,500 bail. He is scheduled to appear Aug. 27 for a court hearing.<\/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>Altercation started over who had right of way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[168,28,29,2029,199],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-52294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-crime","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-ouray-county","tag-san-juan-national-forest"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52294","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=52294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52294"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=52294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}