{"id":52545,"date":"2020-07-24T19:37:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T01:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/54-year-old-man-arrested-after-sex-sting\/"},"modified":"2020-07-25T01:37:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T01:37:27","slug":"54-year-old-man-arrested-after-sex-sting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/54-year-old-man-arrested-after-sex-sting\/","title":{"rendered":"54-year-old man arrested after sex sting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A 54-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of internet sexual exploitation of a child and internet luring of a child after an undercover operation.<\/p>\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=21181b0e-8d2a-4418-9429-93c048fb3b91&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"Gutierrez\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Gutierrez<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>According to an arrest affidavit, the Durango Police Department\u2019s Investigations Bureau launched the operation June 16, making a post on a classifieds website as an underage girl.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say Merrill Duane Gutierrez of Dulce, New Mexico, responded to the post, making comments \u201chighly sexual in nature.\u201d Durango police continued conversations with Gutierrez for several weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Gutierrez, who was told he was communicating with an underage girl, sent sexually graphic photos of himself and tried to make plans to meet. Those plans continually failed, court records show.<\/p>\n<p>Durango police issued a warrant for Gutierrez\u2019s arrest July 8. Cmdr. Jacob Dunlop said Gutierrez was arrested near Dulce on July 9 and was extradited to the La Plata County Jail.<\/p>\n<p>Gutierrez is expected to appear in court Aug. 14. He has since posted bail, according to <a href=\"VineLink.com\">VineLink.com<\/a>.<\/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>Durango police conduct undercover operation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[168,1065,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-52545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","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\/52545","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=52545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52545"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=52545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}