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Journal/Sam Green<br><br>Cortez Police Department badge

Tuesday, Oct. 24

3:09 p.m.: A woman was issued a summons on suspicion of shoplifting at Walmart, 1835 E. Main St., after employees claimed she had tried to steal a gallon of milk, toys, a container of chicken thighs and several children’s masks, valued at $17.26 total.

5 p.m.: A man was arrested at the Cortez Police Department, 608 N. Park St., on a warrant for failure to appear on a local misdemeanor charge after he requested a report of an incident in which he was involved.

8:10 p.m.: A man and a woman were arrested in the 200 block of North Park Street after police contacted them for walking in the road while apparently intoxicated. The man reportedly gave a false name at first. The woman was arrested on a La Plata County warrant for failure to appear on a misdemeanor charge, and the man was arrested on La Plata and Montezuma County warrants for failure to appear, and on suspicion of criminal impersonation, violating a protection order and domestic violence. Both suspects were medically cleared at Southwest Memorial Hospital due to severe intoxication.

11:08 p.m.: A man was issued a summons in the 400 block of East North Street on suspicion of driving an uninsured vehicle, driving an unregistered vehicle and possession of drug paraphernalia after he was pulled over because his car did not have license plates. Five hypodermic syringes were found in the man’s pocket, and a broken glass pipe with suspected meth residue in it was found on the floor of his vehicle.

Wednesday, Oct. 25

12:42 a.m.: Police responded to a report of trespassing in the 1200 block of Twenty Mule Team Drive. A woman claimed that sometime between 4 and 11:50 p.m., someone had entered her car and taken about $20 in cash and change. The case remains under investigation.

2:15 a.m.: A woman was arrested outside the Giant gas station, 2021 E. Main St., on a warrant for failure to appear on a local misdemeanor charge.

3:12 a.m.: A man was arrested in the 1300 block of Acoma Street on three warrants for failure to appear on Montezuma County, Adams County and Jefferson County misdemeanors.

10:22 a.m.: A woman was served with a warrant for a local misdemeanor at Montezuma County Detention Center, 730 E. Driscoll St.

11:10 a.m.: A man was arrested at Montezuma County Combined Courts, 865 N. Park St., on a warrant for failure to appear on a local felony charge.

7:15 p.m.: Police responded to a report of shoplifting at Bealls, 2216 E. Main St.