{"id":59036,"date":"2013-06-25T19:36:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T01:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cronk-leaves-sheriffs-office\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T16:13:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:13:43","slug":"cronk-leaves-sheriffs-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cronk-leaves-sheriffs-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Cronk leaves Sheriff&#8217;s Office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sheriff Dennis Spruell confirmed Cronk\u2019s departure during the regular county commission meeting Monday. He said Deputy District Attorney Lynda Carter has accepted the position as undersheriff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe will be a big asset to the office, and as an attorney will give us good legal guidance on our cases,\u201d Spruell said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that District Attorney Will Furse \u201cwill not be too pleased with the move, I\u2019m sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the loss of Cronk Spruell, said, \u201cHe\u2019s more sorry than I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cronk was placed on administrative leave June 18, and the Colorado Bureau of Investigations was brought in to investigate. He has worked for the sheriff\u2019s office for four years.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations surfaced when officials found discrepancies in a credit card report, Spruell said. As of press time, no criminal charges had been filed in the case.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:jmimiaga@cortezjournal.com\">jmimiaga@cortezjournal.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheriff Dennis Spruell confirmed Cronk\u2019s departure during the regular county commission meeting Monday. He said Deputy District Attorney Lynda Carter has accepted the position as undersheriff. \u201cShe will be a big asset to the office, and as an attorney will give us good legal guidance on our cases,\u201d Spruell said. He added that District Attorney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[168,13,237],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-59036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-crime","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-montezuma-county-government"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59036","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=59036"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63141,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59036\/revisions\/63141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59036"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=59036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}