{"id":71814,"date":"2017-03-06T17:40:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T00:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cbi-gives-details-in-cox-case\/"},"modified":"2017-03-07T00:40:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T00:40:44","slug":"cbi-gives-details-in-cox-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cbi-gives-details-in-cox-case\/","title":{"rendered":"CBI gives details in Cox case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Mancos Marshal John Cox<\/span>du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation master report, provided by Furse, a criminal complaint against Cox was filed by deputy marshal Yvonne McClellan on Oct. 13.<\/p>\n

McClellan told CBI agent Jeff Brown that Cox had asked her and fellow deputy marshal Jason Spruell to run the license plates on all dual white pickups in town, as he was conducting a personal investigation on a romantic rival.<\/p>\n

\u201cDeputy McClellan said Marshal Cox asked this in reference to his personal life. \u2026 McClellan went on to explain that Marshal Cox is dating a woman, who is dating another man. Marshal Cox knew the other man drove a pickup that matched this description,\u201d Brown wrote. McClellan told CBI that she and deputy Spruell did not act on this request, but later found some vehicle registration information on the office fax machine, as Cox was running license plates through the Cortez Communications Center, according to the report.<\/p>\n

\u2018Made up a speed\u2019 for citation<\/p>\n

McClellan also reported a separate incident, wherein an on-duty Cox, was giving McClellan \u2013 who was off-duty at the time \u2013 a ride to Cortez to pick up her personal vehicle. While stopping for coffee on the way to Cortez, Cox saw a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed down and \u201ccame running out of the coffee shop, and turned on his lights and siren and pursued the vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n

McClellan said Cox issued the driver a ticket for traveling 45 in a 20 mph zone, and doubled the fine as it was a school zone.<\/p>\n

\u201cMcClellan confronted Cox about the citation at the time and the fact that he had made up a speed for the citation, and he responded to something of the effect of \u2018That\u2019s just the way it is,\u2019\u201d the report reads.<\/p>\n

Cox resigned his post on Monday. He was placed on paid administrative leave on Nov. 4, before the investigation was made public. He also faces a DUI charge after crashing his vehicle into a guardrail on U.S. Highway 160 in La Plata County on Nov. 10.<\/p>\n

The Mancos Town Board has appointed deputy Jason Spruell as interim marshal, and voted to advertise as soon as possible for a marshal and a deputy.<\/p>\n

The CBI Report (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mancos Marshal John Coxdu1-i-syn According to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation master report, provided by Furse, a criminal complaint against Cox was filed by deputy marshal Yvonne McClellan on Oct. 13. McClellan told CBI agent Jeff Brown that Cox had asked her and fellow deputy marshal Jason Spruell to run the license plates on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,13,52,83],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-71814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-law-enforcement","tag-mancos"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71814","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=71814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71814"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=71814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}