{"id":75415,"date":"2017-10-03T18:24:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T00:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/rico-man-missing-car-found-on-wolf-creek-pass\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T16:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:51:17","slug":"rico-man-missing-car-found-on-wolf-creek-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/rico-man-missing-car-found-on-wolf-creek-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Rico man missing; car found on Wolf Creek Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=400260be-296c-49fd-a36d-1a5be20557c8&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"683\" height=\"828\" alt=\"Matthew Johnston\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Matthew Johnston<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Authorities are still searching for Matthew Johnston, of Rico, who has been missing since Sept. 4.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Mineral County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Johnston made a 911 call explaining that he was lost. The call was traced, and his vehicle was found parked at an overlook on Wolf Creek Pass.<\/p>\n<p>Search and Rescue teams from Archuleta and Mineral counties have combed the area, but have found no sign of him. K-9 Search and Rescue, of Dolores, participated in the search using a dog on Sept. 26, said response director Chuck Melvin, but it found no clues.<\/p>\n<p>An Archuleta County Sheriff\u2019s Office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php%3Fstory_fbid%3D1406723869448622%26id%3D399437323510620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook post<\/a> states that authorities will continue to investigate and track Johnston\u2019s cell phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of now, Matthew is considered a missing person,\u201d the post states. \u201cThank you for all your concerns and please keep Matthew\u2019s friends and family in your thoughts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you have any information, please call the Mineral County Sheriff\u2019s office at 719-658-2600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnston\u2019s vehicle found on Wolf Creek Pass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[493,44,28,1130,29,497],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-75415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-archuleta-county","tag-dolores","tag-headlines","tag-missing-person","tag-newsletter","tag-rico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75415","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=75415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75473,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75415\/revisions\/75473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75415"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=75415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}