{"id":92106,"date":"2019-10-18T23:44:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T23:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/silverton-man-arrested-after-threatening-police-with-knife\/"},"modified":"2019-10-18T23:44:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T23:44:37","slug":"silverton-man-arrested-after-threatening-police-with-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/silverton-man-arrested-after-threatening-police-with-knife\/","title":{"rendered":"Silverton man arrested after threatening police with knife"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=5335b1c3-b580-4a0e-b9f6-ebb640875fc1&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"831\" height=\"467\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A Silverton man was arrested on suspicion of felony menacing after threatening a police officer with a knife.<\/p>\n<p>According to an arrest affidavit, San Juan County Sheriff Bruce Conrad responded to a report of a disturbance around 7 p.m. Oct. 11 at the Highlander apartment buildings in the 1400 block of Greene Street.<\/p>\n<p>Conrad was met by a resident of the apartment building, who said his roommate was getting violent and threatened to kill him. The man was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>The man said his roommate, identified as 60-year-old Gregory John Stapleton, was also calling people and threatening to kill them.<\/p>\n<p>Conrad went up to the apartment and knocked but Stapleton did not answer. The door was unlocked, and Conrad entered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Stapleton moved quickly in my direction, while pulling a Karambit-style folding knife from his right pocket,\u201d Conrad wrote in his report. \u201cAs Mr. Stapleton moved toward me, he aggressively opened the knife with a large sweeping arc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stapleton yelled at Conrad to shoot him, but Conrad instead deployed a Taser. Stapleton retreated into a bedroom, and a few minutes later, re-emerged brandishing a knife.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI yelled back, \u2018Put it down! Put down the knife!\u2019 Multiple times. Mr. Stapleton continued to yell, \u2018Shoot me. Just shoot me now. Right here Bruce,\u201d Conrad wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Stapleton continued to threaten others and demanded Conrad shoot him while Conrad waited for backup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Stapleton announced, \u2018Okay Bruce, I\u2019m done. Come in here and get me,\u2019\u201d according to the arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>Stapleton was placed in handcuffs without incident. He was taken to Mercy Regional Medical Center where Axis Health was called for help. Stapleton\u2019s blood-alcohol content was 0.123% \u2013 by comparison, Colorado\u2019s BAC limit for driving is 0.08%.<\/p>\n<p>Stapleton was charged with menacing, resisting arrest and harassment.<\/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>60-year-old suspect had blood-alcohol level of 0.123%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5796,5832,5736,5735,5741,5968,5967],"tags":[168,1024,29,1562,327],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-92106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-la-plata-county-jail","category-local-news","category-news","category-newsletter","category-san-juan-county-colorado","category-silverton","tag-crime","tag-la-plata-county-jail","tag-newsletter","tag-san-juan-county-colorado","tag-silverton"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92106","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=92106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92106"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=92106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}