{"id":75616,"date":"2017-12-12T14:25:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T21:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/suspect-arrested-after-armed-robbery-at-cortez-walmart\/"},"modified":"2017-12-12T21:25:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T21:25:39","slug":"suspect-arrested-after-armed-robbery-at-cortez-walmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/suspect-arrested-after-armed-robbery-at-cortez-walmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested after armed robbery at Cortez Walmart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=12138f89-ecd0-4d52-a612-182492b0c0a3&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1028\" height=\"635\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A man was arrested Friday in Cortez on a warrant for allegedly robbing a Walmart cash register at gunpoint the week before.<\/p>\n<p>According to incident reports from the Cortez Police Department, the suspect had threatened a cashier with a handgun just after midnight on Dec. 2, and stolen more than $1,000 in cash. A Walmart employee said she had recognized the man as a former employee, and police requested a warrant for his arrest. The suspect, William Nez, was arrested at the same Walmart on Dec. 8.<\/p>\n<p>The reporting employee claimed a man had brought a compound bow valued at $398 to his cash register. But when the cashier rang up the bow for sale, the man reportedly covered his face with a scarf, put a red bag on the counter and told the cashier to fill it with all the money in the register. He then opened up his coat and showed the cashier a handgun holstered beneath his armpit, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Including the price of the bow, the total amount reported stolen from the store was $1,530.01.<\/p>\n<p>The cashier described the man as a Native American man between 20 and 30 years old, with long hair, a long coat, a cowboy hat and thick, black-rimmed glasses. Another employee reportedly said she had seen a man who fit that description walking around the store with his face uncovered before the incident, and recognized him as Nez, who had worked for the store previously. According to a report by Cortez police officer Ryan McCluney, responding officers confirmed the employees\u2019 stories by looking at the store\u2019s surveillance video and requested a warrant for Nez.<\/p>\n<p>Nez was arrested about a week later at Walmart after employees reported he was in the electronics section. According to a report by officer Rogelio Maynard, police arrested him without incident at 9:57 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Walmart staff declined to comment on the robbery.<\/p>\n<p>Charges are scheduled to be filed against Nez in Montezuma County District Court on Dec. 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>employee suspected of threatening cashier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,13,28,29,51],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-75616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-police"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75616","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=75616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75616"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=75616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}