{"id":96438,"date":"2018-12-28T11:31:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/report-of-man-ramming-booth-at-four-corners-monument-a-misunderstanding\/"},"modified":"2018-12-28T11:31:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:31:49","slug":"report-of-man-ramming-booth-at-four-corners-monument-a-misunderstanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/report-of-man-ramming-booth-at-four-corners-monument-a-misunderstanding\/","title":{"rendered":"Report of man ramming booth at Four Corners monument a misunderstanding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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This August 2005 photo shows a boy touching four border states \u2013 New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Colorado \u2013 at Four Corners National Monument. On Dec. 19, Cortez dispatch received a call that a man was ramming his vehicle into a sales booth at the monument. It turns out there was no collision.<\/span>Associated Press file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

A report of a man attempting to ram his vehicle into a sales booth on the Colorado side of the Four Corners Monument on Dec. 19 turned out to be a misunderstanding.<\/p>\n

Dispatch received the unusual call at 2:40 p.m. and a Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s sergeant responded. After the sergeant arrived at the monument and conducted an investigation, he determined that the man, identified as Rohit Kale, was not attempting to ram the sales booth and no accident or collision occurred.<\/p>\n

Sheriff Steve Nowlin said Kale is from India and was found sleeping in his car behind the sales booth. He had been drinking all day and was last observed driving four hours before law enforcement arrived.<\/p>\n

\u201cWasn\u2019t ramming nothing,\u201d Nowlin said. \u201cThat\u2019s what the report was, and he wasn\u2019t doing any of that. I don\u2019t know where that come from. None of us do.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to an MCSO incident report, the sergeant had Kale\u2019s vehicle towed, and he intended to drive Kale to the Axis Health System detox unit in Durango. Before driving to Durango, however, he brought Kale to Southwest Memorial Hospital for medical clearance and found his blood alcohol level was low enough that the Bridge Emergency Shelter would take him.<\/p>\n

He stayed at the Bridge Emergency Shelter overnight and picked up his vehicle in the morning. No charges were filed.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe received his car back the next day and on his way,\u201d Nowlin said.<\/p>\n

sdolan@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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