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Police & Sheriff's Blotters

Every Cortez Police Department and Montezuma County Sheriff's Office blotter the Current has published, newest first.

Each blotter covers about a week of incident reports released by the agency. An arrest, summons or citation is an accusation, not a conviction, and everyone named is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court. Latest blotter published Nov 5.

Cortez Police Department · Published Nov 5

Police Blotter: Oct. 29 – Nov. 4

Three arrests after a man was reported waving a gun outside a downtown bar, a man police say beat another man on South Ash Street, a TV thrown at a police sergeant and three drug arrests after a Safeway traffic stop.

Montezuma County Sheriff's Office · Published Nov 5

Sheriff's Blotter: Sept. 16 – Nov. 3

A rockslide near Dolores that crushed a truck and broke through a shop wall, a DUI arrest after a drunk-driving report, a tire fire on Highway 491 and a dangerous-dog summons.

Cortez Police Department · Published Oct 29

Police Blotter: Oct. 22 – Oct. 28

A man stunned with a Taser after police said he came at an officer with a pencil, a woman accused of choking a man on West Main Street, a foot chase through downtown alleys and a camping citation on a 31-degree night.

Montezuma County Sheriff's Office · Published Oct 28

Sheriff's Blotter: Sept. 6 – Oct. 26

Bears in a Dolores preschool's dumpster, two arrests near Towaoc after a suspected fentanyl find, a DUI arrest after a Highway 160 crash and a man missing since early October.

Cortez Police Department · Published Oct 22

Police Blotter: Oct. 16 – Oct. 21

A woman accused of kicking an officer at the hospital, a man kicked in the face outside a gas station, a shove near a church and a string of trespass arrests at City Market and Walmart.

Cortez Police Department · Published Oct 15

Police Blotter: Oct. 8 – Oct. 15

A DUI arrest in the Walmart lot with a loaded firearm in the truck, a Main Street fight, a disturbance that frightened a visiting family and a run of warrant arrests.

Cortez Police Department · Published Oct 9

Police Blotter: Sept. 30 – Oct. 7

A pickup taken from outside a thrift shop and found hours later, warrant arrests and trespass summonses.