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Crime up a bit for Snowdown
Two assaults reported during annual festival
Herald Staff Writer
Snowdown Parade Winners
Forty-eight floats took part in the parade this year. Lead parade judge Ken Anderson said there are still unclaimed trophies for winners to pick up.
Sweepstakes award
“House of RA,” Durango Bagel
Mayor’s Choice award
“Cleopatcha, Queen of Da Mile,” Colorado Department of Transportation
Commercial 1 category
First place: “No De-Nile Banking,” Bank of Colorado
Second place: “BP Goes B.C.,” BP
Commercial 2 category
First place: Pine River Valley Bank
Second place: Four Corners Broadcasting
Commercial 3 category
First place: “Diving Under Da Nile,” Splash Down Travel
Second place: “Cleopatra’s 3 Springs Barge,” Three Springs
Noncommercial category
First place: Jazzercise
Second place: “Da Nile Buffet,” Community Connections
Junior category
First place: Durango Discovery Museum
Second place: “It’s Alive,” Durango Performing Arts
Best hot air balloon
“Snowdown Balloon Rally”
The Louis Gremillion
Good Times Award and the
Marching Spirit Award
“Chariot of Fools,” Sam Gannon
Best musical entry
“Purgatory in De Nile,” Purgatory Mountain Resort
Best animal entry
La Plata County Search and Rescue
Funniest or wittiest
“Beer Bottle Drill Team,” 8th Avenue Tavern
Best use of lights
“Ancient Whorship,” Your Flesh Fire Tribe
There was a slight increase in the number of drunken driving arrests, said Sgt. Gary Parsons, with the Durango Police Department.
"I think, for the most part, it was a pretty good Snowdown weekend, other than people drinking and driving," he said. "They're never going to learn."
Two assaults were reported during the festival, including one that sent a man to the hospital with a broken nose.
The incident occurred about 9:45 p.m. Friday on Main Avenue between College Drive and Seventh Street.
David Roy, who works at San Juan Basin Health Department, said he was walking behind a friend and the friend's girlfriend when the friend's cell phone fell onto the sidewalk.
Roy reached down to pick it up and, as he straightened up, a person unknown to him slugged him in the head. He went to the hospital with a broken nose and a laceration that required two stitches.
An officer across the street witnessed the incident and arrested the suspect, Roy said.
Efforts to obtain the suspect's identity were unsuccessful Tuesday night.
From 5 p.m. Friday to 7 a.m. Monday there were 37 police reports completed, Parsons said. That was slightly more than a normal weekend, but not by much, Parsons said.
Some of the incidents included two assaults, one shoplifting, three thefts, one motor vehicle theft, four reports of criminal mischief, one assault on a police officer, one report of domestic violence, eight drunken driving arrests, three criminal trespasses and one runaway juvenile.
Over the years, violent crime in Durango has been on the rise with 38 incidents in 2003 compared to 74 incidents in 2007, according to FBI statistics.
shane@durangoherald.comHerald Staff Writer Dale Rodebaugh contributed to this story.
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