{"id":66316,"date":"2020-01-24T14:52:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T21:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/former-la-plata-county-sheriffs-deputy-sentenced-for-careless-driving-causing-death\/"},"modified":"2020-01-24T21:52:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T21:52:55","slug":"former-la-plata-county-sheriffs-deputy-sentenced-for-careless-driving-causing-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/former-la-plata-county-sheriffs-deputy-sentenced-for-careless-driving-causing-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Former La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s deputy sentenced for careless driving causing death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8fe19db2-7473-443b-8b11-d09ab60a14a9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1300\" height=\"889\" alt=\"The truck that Nathaniel Andrew was driving April 23 before crossing the center line and crashing head-on with a vehicle being driven by Greg Ryder, a local musician. Ryder was killed in the crash.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The truck that Nathaniel Andrew was driving April 23 before crossing the center line and crashing head-on with a vehicle being driven by Greg Ryder, a local musician. Ryder was killed in the crash.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A former La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s deputy is serving a 10-day jail sentence as punishment for a crash that killed Greg Ryder, a longtime, regular performer at the Diamond Belle Saloon and The Office Spiritorium in the Strater Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>La Plata County Judge Dondi Osborne sentenced Nathaniel Andrew after he admitted to falling asleep while driving, <a href=\"https:\/\/durangoherald.com\/articles\/273678\">crossing the center line on U.S. Highway 550 north and crashing into Ryder<\/a> after a 12-hour night shift at La Plata County Jail.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew pleaded guilty to careless driving resulting in death and has since resigned from the La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Along with his 10-day jail sentence, Osborne sentenced Andrew to two years of probation, ordered he perform 100 hours of useful public service and restricted him from driving between the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. for his first year of probation.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew has also been ordered to pay $1,930 in restitution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/durangoherald.com\/articles\/306117?utm_campaign=magnet&amp;utm_source=entity_page&amp;utm_medium=related_articles\">Osborne denied a previous agreement between Andrew and the 6th Judicial District Attorney\u2019s Office<\/a>, saying the proposed sentence \u2013 which did not include jail time \u2013 was too lenient.<\/p>\n<p>The judge at the time said she would not accept a plea deal unless Andrew could be sentenced to at least 10 days in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Osborne accepted a plea agreement in his case Jan. 14 \u2013 Andrew was ordered to report to jail for his sentence Jan. 15.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:bhauff@durangoherald.com\">bhauff@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>asleep on U.S. Highway 550, killing local musician<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[133,168,52,107],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-66316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-law-enforcement","tag-laws"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66316","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=66316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66316"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=66316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}