{"id":58669,"date":"2013-07-11T22:58:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T04:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/officials-cannot-confirm-cronks-resume\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T16:10:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:10:45","slug":"officials-cannot-confirm-cronks-resume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/officials-cannot-confirm-cronks-resume\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials cannot confirm Cronk\u2019s r\u00e9sum\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to his personal page on the social media site LinkedIn.com, Cronk reportedly worked as a reserve officer at the Albuquerque Police Department from March 2005 to August 2008, and served as a deputy with the Sandoval County Sheriff\u2019s Department from February 2004 to August 2008. Neither agency, however, has a personnel file for Cronk.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe reviewed the older files for reserves as far back as 2006 and could not find any information with the name Robin Cronk listed anywhere,\u201d said Albuquerque Police Department Lt. Anthony Montano via email.<\/p>\n

Montano added that personnel files from the reserve program had been transferred from the Albuquerque Police Department\u2019s operations review division, and those records were no longer available.<\/p>\n

Sandoval County Sheriff\u2019s Office Cap. Michael Traxler said he is positive that Cronk was never a full-time certified deputy within his agency, but added that he has found records that indicate Cronk was issued department property as a reserve deputy. The agency, however, has no trace of any personnel records for Cronk.<\/p>\n

\u201cI looked through current and past personnel folders at the sheriff\u2019s office and did not locate any files that belonged to Robin Cronk,\u201d said Sandoval County Sheriff\u2019s Office executive assistant Katherine Sanchez via email.<\/p>\n

Cronk\u2019s LinkedIn.com page was removed from the Internet last month just days after the Cortez Journal first reported that he had been placed on paid administrative leave as a result of a credit card investigation. Montezuma County Sheriff Dennis Spruell declined to comment on whether Cronk had been properly vetted prior to his hiring.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re asking about personnel issues, and I won\u2019t discuss personnel issues,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Within a week of the investigation being launched, Cronk resigned from the Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Department. The probe into those misappropriated credit card funds remain under scrutiny by the Colorado Bureau of Investigations.<\/p>\n

First as a deputy, Cronk worked at the Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Department for approximately four-and-a-half years, and he was tapped as undersheriff following a civilian board interview process, Spruell said.<\/p>\n

Within days of Cronk\u2019s resignation, former Deputy District Attorney Linda Carter was hired to replace him as undersheriff.<\/p>\n

Attempts to reach Cronk for comment were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n

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Cronkdu1-i-syn According to his personal page on the social media site LinkedIn.com, Cronk reportedly worked as a reserve officer at the Albuquerque Police Department from March 2005 to August 2008, and served as a deputy with the Sandoval County Sheriff\u2019s Department from February 2004 to August 2008. Neither agency, however, has a personnel file for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13,52],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-58669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-law-enforcement"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58669","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=58669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63071,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58669\/revisions\/63071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58669"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=58669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}