{"id":64164,"date":"2019-06-06T11:07:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T17:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/towaoc-man-who-attacked-bia-officer-sentenced\/"},"modified":"2019-06-06T17:07:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T17:07:17","slug":"towaoc-man-who-attacked-bia-officer-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/towaoc-man-who-attacked-bia-officer-sentenced\/","title":{"rendered":"Towaoc man who attacked BIA officer sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=db277330-701c-4e63-bcd2-9d9764483b79&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1200\" height=\"783\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A Towaoc man was sentenced this week in federal court for the attempted murder of a Bureau of Indian Affairs officer last year, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>Wendell Mills Jr., of Towaoc, was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis sentence represents the FBI\u2019s commitment to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law anyone who seeks to assault or kill any of our law enforcement partners,\u201d FBI Special Agent in Charge Dean Phillips said Wednesday in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>On April 8, 2018, Mills and his brother were involved in a violent scuffle with BIA officer Dalton Loggains at a Towaoc residence on Mountain Sage Road.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, Mills, 21, and his brother had been drinking and were having a \u201cplayful\u201d fighting match outside when they reportedly tipped over a neighbor\u2019s portable toilet.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a disturbance call, Loggains attempted to contact the brother who fled into the backyard. At that point, Mills reportedly attacked the officer from behind, and the brother joined in. A bystander tried to break up the fight.<\/p>\n<p>Loggains, who was being choked, attempted to draw his service weapon. But Mills grabbed for the gun, and it fired a round, hitting hit Loggains in the calf and Wendell Mills in the thigh.<\/p>\n<p>As Mills took control of the weapon, the officer released the gun\u2019s magazine. Mills pointed what he believed was a loaded gun at the officer\u2019s head and pulled the trigger, according to court documents. When the gun failed to fire, Mills \u201cracked\u201d the slide, and again tried to fire it at the head of the officer. The bystander intervened long enough for Loggains to discharge his stun gun and subdue Mills.<\/p>\n<p>Another BIA officer was notified that Loggains was not responding to radio calls and arrived at the residence to assist in the arrest of Mills and his brother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cViolence against our law enforcement community will simply not be tolerated,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn, who prosecuted the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>serve 10 years in prison, three years of probation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,13,28,29,144,547],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-64164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-towaoc","tag-ute-mountain-ute-indian-tribe"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64164","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=64164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64164"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=64164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}