{"id":68053,"date":"2017-02-18T00:05:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T07:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-evidence-locker-needs-relocation\/"},"modified":"2017-02-18T07:05:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T07:05:38","slug":"montezuma-evidence-locker-needs-relocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-evidence-locker-needs-relocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma evidence locker needs relocation"},"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=f6c32bc2-5b86-4e07-a153-a51e7826cb74&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"599\" height=\"725\" alt=\"Steve Nowlin\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Steve Nowlin<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The department\u2019s evidence room contains thousands of items, he said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Montezuma County Commissioners voted Jan. 30 to put up for sale the building, which also houses county courtrooms, the probation department and The Bridge Emergency Shelter.<\/p>\n<p>Nowlin said he\u2019s shopping around for a new evidence storage location.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to have it,\u201d he said. \u201cI have no room anywhere else, period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nowlin discussed the issue with the commissioners at their Feb. 13 meeting, but they did not make a decision about relocating the storage area or assisting the sheriff with the process.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence in the locker dates back decades, and the department is required to keep it, Nowlin said.<\/p>\n<p>The current evidence storage area is about 1,500 square feet and is climate-controlled with water and electricity, Nowlin said. He\u2019s looking for a slightly larger new facility, between 1,800 and 2,000 square feet, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to plan for the future,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Moving the items would be costly and time-consuming, Nowlin said. He would prefer to have the evidence custodian alone deal with the items so the evidence is kept secure and the chain of custody is intact, he said. However, that would be a large amount of work for one person, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re trying to move forward, and we\u2019ll get things done,\u201d Nowlin said. \u201cIt\u2019s inevitable that things change, but we\u2019ll do the best we can.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nowlindu1-i-syn The department\u2019s evidence room contains thousands of items, he said Friday. Montezuma County Commissioners voted Jan. 30 to put up for sale the building, which also houses county courtrooms, the probation department and The Bridge Emergency Shelter. Nowlin said he\u2019s shopping around for a new evidence storage location. \u201cI have to have it,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,13,60],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-68053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-montezuma-county"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68053","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=68053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68053"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=68053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}