{"id":71241,"date":"2016-11-24T00:31:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T07:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-pleads-guilty-in-dui-vehicular-homicide-case\/"},"modified":"2016-11-24T07:31:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T07:31:22","slug":"man-pleads-guilty-in-dui-vehicular-homicide-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-pleads-guilty-in-dui-vehicular-homicide-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Man pleads guilty in DUI, vehicular homicide case"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=212ce901-568b-404c-a709-70ea2596ad44&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>Judge Douglas Walker presided in Montezuma District Court on Wednesday and heard Ellis\u2019 plea.<\/p>\n<p>Ellis, 28, was driving in a pickup truck with two passengers on Road 31 just north of Colorado Highway 184 at about 11:30 p.m. on March 30, according to Colorado State Patrol. Ellis lost control of the truck, which traveled off the left side of the road and rolled multiple times, striking a mailbox, parked motorcycle, propane tank and several other items.<\/p>\n<p>A 22-year-old woman died after she was partially ejected from the truck. Another passenger, a 31-year-old man, sustained minor injuries. No one in the truck wore seatbelts.<\/p>\n<p>Ellis\u2019s sentencing was set for Jan. 10 at 1:30 p.m. in district court. Prosecutors said several family members of the deceased victim were prepared to make statements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>du1-i-syn Judge Douglas Walker presided in Montezuma District Court on Wednesday and heard Ellis\u2019 plea. Ellis, 28, was driving in a pickup truck with two passengers on Road 31 just north of Colorado Highway 184 at about 11:30 p.m. on March 30, according to Colorado State Patrol. Ellis lost control of the truck, which traveled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71242,"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-71241","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\/71241","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=71241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71241"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=71241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}