Nicholas Wentz received a plea hearing date, as well as an admonishment from a judge in the Montezuma County Combined Courts on Wednesday.
Wentz appeared for a pretrial conference in three cases and arraignment in one. All the cases were set for a plea hearing Jan. 28 at 1:30 p.m.
The District Attorney’s Office informed County Judge Ian MacLaren that Wentz has allegedly maintained his Facebook and has been posting “multiple times daily about the victim” as well as directing it at her daughter.
The DA said it showed a “dangerous level of narcissism” and “instability” and asked MacLaren to “admonish” Wentz to cease his social media posting.
MacLaren addressed the alleged social media posting, advising Wentz to cease posting about the alleged victim and her daughter.
The first recent incident to take place regarding Wentz was recorded on Sept. 28, but the Cortez Police Department did not release the record, citing “medical/mental health.”
On Oct. 27, Wentz was arrested by officer Taylor Marston on suspicion of domestic violence and again on Dec. 1 after he allegedly violated the protection order against the victim.
Police were called to a North Dolores Road home after an altercation reportedly occurred between Wentz and a male, who was with the woman.
She told police they had dated for eight months, but had broken up around a year ago, and Wentz has a protection order that states he is to stay at least 100 yards away from her and her home.
By the time police arrived, Wentz had run away.
Police responded to another call from the residence on Dec. 8, but once police left, he reportedly returned and started knocking on her doors and windows again.
Officers ordered him to the ground, but he ran toward a responding deputy. They Tased and arrested him on suspicion of violating a protection order, harassment, domestic violence, resisting arrest and obstructing a peace officer.
