{"id":76521,"date":"2018-03-06T19:50:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T02:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-assaulting-durango-police-officer\/"},"modified":"2018-03-07T02:50:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T02:50:37","slug":"durango-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-assaulting-durango-police-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-assaulting-durango-police-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Durango man arrested on suspicion of assaulting Durango police officer"},"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=8218b8cc-8f7b-4410-8bc8-39485bd7bff5&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"Garcia\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Garcia<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A 33-year-old Durango man who assaulted a police officer early Monday and fled the scene has been apprehended and arrested, according to the Durango Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Durango Police Cmdr. Ray Shupe said an officer approached a suspicious vehicle with its headlights on around 3:40 a.m. Monday near 500 East Fourth Avenue in downtown Durango.<\/p>\n<p>The officer approached the vehicle, a black 2007 Lexus, to find a man passed out in the driver\u2019s seat. Shupe said the officer noted evidence of drug activity in the car and asked the man to get out of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>When he got out of the car, the man \u2013 identified as Gerald Garcia \u2013 immediately started fighting with the officer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very violent confrontation,\u201d Shupe said. \u201cIt was an all-out fight at that point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The officer lost control of Garcia, and he took off on foot. Durango Police set up a perimeter, but they were unable to locate Garcia.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia, who was considered dangerous, was arrested Monday without incident and charged with second-degree assault on a peace officer, a Class 5 felony. He was also charged with resisting arrest and unlawful possession of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n<p>Shupe said Garcia was the only one in the car at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>He said the officer was punched and scraped his knee in the altercation. Medical units responded but ultimately felt the officer did not require transport to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garcia, 33, fled on foot before being arrested Monday afternoon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[585,168],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-76521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-assault-general","tag-crime"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76521","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=76521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76521"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=76521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}