{"id":53561,"date":"2020-06-04T00:59:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T06:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/suspect-arrested-for-vehicular-assault\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:05:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:05:02","slug":"suspect-arrested-for-vehicular-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/suspect-arrested-for-vehicular-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested for vehicular assault"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=82da5214-6733-4f18-a368-f4a889b61ee5&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1459\" alt=\"A home was destroyed by fire on Road G May 29, and the cause is under investigation. No one was injured. A resident in a nearby camper trailer was evacuated.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A home was destroyed by fire on Road G May 29, and the cause is under investigation. No one was injured. A resident in a nearby camper trailer was evacuated.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A man was arrested for suspected vehicular assault and other charges following an incident in the 25000 block of Road G that injured a pedestrian, reports Montezuma County Sheriff Steve Nowlin.<\/p>\n<p>Wyatt Lance Fish, 45, was arrested by sheriff deputies on multiple charges, including alleged vehicular assault, second-degree assault on a peace officers, and resisting arrest, according to a sheriff affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>Formal charges are being investigated by the 22nd Judicial District Attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>According to a sheriff\u2019s incident report and witness reports, Fish drove a Ford flatbed pickup recklessly across private property, lost control and allegedly struck resident James Dillashaw, who suffered serious injuries. Dillashaw was transported to Southwest Memorial Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Fish then allegedly drove through two fences and struck a parked vehicle head on, which was pushed into an agricultural building, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, a nearby trailer home the suspect had entered caught fire, Nowlin said. Fish was seen fleeing the scene by bicycle then on foot. He was arrested while hiding in a nearby wooded area after a pursuit and search by deputies and the Colorado State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Fish allegedly kicked two officers and spit on a state trooper while being arrested, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Cortez Fire Protection District firefighters responded to the burning mobile home and extinguished the fire, and there was heavy damage. A nearby vehicle also caught fire and was a total loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedestrian injured; suspect fled scene on bicycle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,168,350,13,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-53561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-crime","tag-fire","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53561","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=53561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88313,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53561\/revisions\/88313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53561"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=53561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}