WEDNESDAY, JULY 6

Ÿ A deputy was requested by dispatch to contact an employee with the town of Dolores in reference to a theft. The reporting party told the deputy that sometime between Friday, July 1, and Tuesday, July 5, an unknown subject(s) took a picnic table valued at $1,000 from the Riverside Park, located on Railroad Avenue in Dolores. There are no known suspects or witnesses.

Ÿ A deputy responded to a business on Colorado Highway 184 in Montezuma County for a report of a cold trespass. An office manager at the business showed the deputy video footage of a trespass that had occurred while the business was closed around 1:40 a.m. July 4. The reporting party stated that the business has a motion activated camera that is used after hours. The camera had been activated by, and took images of three people standing in front of the business’s fuel tank. One of the individuals appeared to have a siphon hose around his or her neck, and there appeared to be a fuel can placed on the ground below the tank. The tank is kept locked with a padlock, which was still intact when the trespass on the video was discovered. The office manager did not believe anything to be stolen due to the lock. The entry gate to the business is also locked after hours, so the individuals would have had to park outside it near the highway and walk up the hill to where the tanks are located. The surveillance images will be entered into evidence in this matter.

THURSDAY, JULY 7

Ÿ A deputy traveling north on County Road 23 observed a male subject traveling south in a silver, four-door car. The deputy recognized the driver from prior contacts as someone who’d had their driving privileges revoked in Colorado for three alcohol convictions. Cortez dispatch confirmed this. The deputy pulled over the driver and asked him why he was driving, to which the driver advised that he was on his way to his Cortez Addiction Recovery Services classes. The driver was placed into custody and served a summons for driving under restraint-alcohol related.

FRIDAY, JULY 8

Ÿ Cortez dispatch requested a deputy respond to a residence on Colorado Highway 160 in reference to a burglary. The reporting party stated that she had noticed her Thomas Kinkade cuckoo clock missing from the wall in her living room, and that the only visitors she’d had in her residence in the last few weeks was a person who comes in twice a week to do cleaning and aid her in daily chores, and a company that came in to clean her carpets. The resident has used this company many times in the past with no problem, and believed that the clock was still on the wall when they left, as she had been present the entire time they were there. She had left her residence one time in the previous week, but stated that she usually locks up her house when she leaves. The deputy spoke with the person who assists the reporting party with chores and cleaning stated that she had no recollection of the clock hanging on the wall. The residence shows no signs of forced entry. There are no known suspects at this time.

SUNDAY, JULY 10

Ÿ A deputy responded to a construction site on Colorado Highway 145 in Montezuma County for a report of a burglary. The reporting party stated that he is building a home, and was in the process of hanging the doors when the theft occurred. He left the site at 2 p.m., and returned to the site approximately 1 p.m. the next day, and noticed many of his power tools missing when he went inside the building under construction. The reporting party provided the deputy with the names of people whom he had allowed to stay on the property, including a man and his girlfriend. He allowed them to do so because they had told him they were living in their car. They helped the reporting party with some work, and he paid them $20 and fed them dinner for helping. The next day he asked them to leave and the man wanted more money from the reporting party. After he was told no and was asked again to leave, the man told the reporting party that he would get his money and left with no further incident. This had occurred in the spring of this year. Another person had been allowed to live on the property, but the reporting party did not believe that he would have taken the items because he had moved a few weeks ago and was no longer living in the region. This person had lived on the property for approximately one year while helping to build the residence. The man’s girlfriend did live on the property with him for a time, and when he left, the reporting party helped her move into a residence in Cortez. The case has been forwarded to the detective division.