{"id":59967,"date":"2014-01-29T22:48:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T05:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dennis-spruell-aims-for-2nd-term-as-sheriff\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T22:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T22:29:13","slug":"dennis-spruell-aims-for-2nd-term-as-sheriff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dennis-spruell-aims-for-2nd-term-as-sheriff\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Spruell aims for 2nd term as sheriff"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d88c3bc8-1a03-4c4e-81e4-152ae866a55e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"342\" height=\"493\" alt=\"Spruell\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Spruell<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to Colorado Secretary of State records, Spruell filed an affidavit to seek a second term last month.<\/p>\n<p>He was officially registered as a candidate on Jan. 13, 2014. His current term expires at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of you have been wondering if I was going to run for sheriff again,\u201d he posted on his personal Facebook page last week. \u201cAbsolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first four years was the beginning, and I have more to accomplish,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>As of press time, no other candidates had filed to run for the sheriff\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n<p>In announcing his candidacy on Facebook, Spruell said he believes in the constitution and fighting to protect it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy stance on gun issues is not a secret, and I will not back down from those who want to strip our rights guaranteed us by the constitution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Also on his Facebook page, Spruell wrote of several accomplishments during his term as sheriff, including the establishment of a pretrial services program and a narcotics division under his command. He also touted minimal budget increases and enhanced transparency \u201clike never before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the claims of success, Spruell\u2019s administration has also been beset with controversy. In 2013, his top commander was forced to resign over allegations of public corruption; his top drug enforcement officer was fired for writing false reports, and three inmates died while in custody at the Montezuma County jail, which he oversees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBring God into our lives and the constitution in our government,\u201d Spruell concluded in his Facebook announcement. \u201cSeems like the perfect solution to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:tbaker@cortezjournal.com\">tbaker@cortezjournal.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spruelldu1-i-syn According to Colorado Secretary of State records, Spruell filed an affidavit to seek a second term last month. He was officially registered as a candidate on Jan. 13, 2014. His current term expires at the end of the year. \u201cSome of you have been wondering if I was going to run for sheriff again,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[188,13,52,308,237],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-59967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dolores-star","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-law-enforcement","tag-local-elections","tag-montezuma-county-government"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59967","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=59967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60039,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59967\/revisions\/60039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59967"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=59967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}