{"id":68557,"date":"2017-04-19T16:20:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T22:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-faces-assault-robbery-charges-after-fight\/"},"modified":"2017-04-19T22:20:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T22:20:37","slug":"man-faces-assault-robbery-charges-after-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-faces-assault-robbery-charges-after-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Man faces assault, robbery charges after fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a168be59-6ef9-4000-91d3-8cbcfcfe248b&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 Cortez man faces second-degree assault and robbery charges after an April 10 fight.<\/p>\n<p>Vernon Begay, 28, was jailed after a fight about 8:45 p.m. April 10 that left Julivan Denetdeal, 31, of Montezuma County, in critical condition, according to Cortez Police.<\/p>\n<p>Denetdeal was airlifted to St. Mary\u2019s Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Grand Junction with serious head and facial wounds, according to a police report.<\/p>\n<p>Begay has been charged with felony second-degree assault causing serious bodily injury and robbery in connection with the case.<\/p>\n<p>A second-degree assault conviction carries a prison sentence of at least five years.<\/p>\n<p>Montezuma County Judge JenniLynn Lawrence set Begay\u2019s bond at $50,000 cash or surety on April 13.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in Montezuma County Court on Wednesday and is due back for a preliminary hearing on May 24 at 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assault conviction carries 5-year term<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,60],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-68557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-montezuma-county"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68557","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=68557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68557"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=68557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}