{"id":60528,"date":"2018-08-21T19:08:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T01:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/la-plata-county-jail-inmate-escapes-from-outside-work-assignment\/"},"modified":"2018-08-22T01:08:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T01:08:27","slug":"la-plata-county-jail-inmate-escapes-from-outside-work-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/la-plata-county-jail-inmate-escapes-from-outside-work-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"La Plata County Jail inmate escapes from outside work assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A La Plata County Jail inmate assigned to outside work at the Durango\/La Plata County Senior Center escaped Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Marty Kelly Yazzie, 30, walked out of the senior center between noon and 12:15 p.m., according to a news release from La Plata County government. He was wearing a white T-shirt, dark blue jeans, a blue baseball hat and white Nike athletic shoes with maroon lettering.<\/p>\n<p>Yazzie remained missing as of 5:40 p.m. Tuesday, said Ray Shupe, spokesman with the Durango Police Department. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.<\/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=5cad095f-e00c-482c-9b37-713060589d94&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"Yazzie\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Yazzie<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Yazzie, possibly from Arizona, has brown hair and brown eyes. He is about 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 190 pounds. Yazzie was serving a 777-day sentence for violation of a restraining order. He had been in custody at La Plata County Jail since June 23.<\/p>\n<p>The Durango Police Department investigated Yazzie\u2019s escape and will issue an arrest warrant for escape from custody. He is not believed to be dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Burke, spokesman with the La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s Office, said Yazzie worked as a dishwasher at the senior center. An employee at the center would pick him up in the morning and drop him off at night, Burke said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey try to screen them as best they can to prevent this kind of thing, but it does happen,\u201d Burke said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on Yazzie\u2019s whereabouts is asked to call dispatch at 385-2900. Residents can also Crimestoppers at 247-1112 to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:shane@durangoherald.com\">shane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>away from Durango senior center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[168,3984,28,1024,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-60528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-crime","tag-durango-la-plata-senior-center","tag-headlines","tag-la-plata-county-jail","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60528","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=60528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60528"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=60528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}