On June 13 around 10:15 p.m., officers arrived on the scene of a rollover crash on the 1500 block of South Broadway. The driver, who was later identified as Krysteen Williams, had overcorrected her Silver 2022 Toyota 4Runner and flipped the vehicle, ejecting Williams through the sunroof, according to officers in Cortez.
When officers arrived, she was pinned under the driver’s side front windshield and hood area, according to the incident report written by Cortez Police Sgt. Michael Moran.
No other vehicles were involved in the crash.
Moran, along with Sgt. Glenn Edwards, officer Shane Fletcher and two Montezuma County deputies, worked to free Williams, who was unable to move. She was breathing and making grunting noises, and her pupils had no reaction to light, officers said.
Her face was pinned under the windshield and her chest and abdomen were pinned under the car hood, but the officers were able to free her.
After Williams had been taken to the hospital and officers began looking through crash debris, they found a digital scale, multiple empty baggies and Q-tips, according to the report.
Officer Joseph Yen of the Cortez Police Department completed an inventory of the vehicle to find multiple glass pipes containing white residue and small digital scales.
He also found a zip-close bag that was found to have either a fentanyl compound or methamphetamine inside it. The bag has been sent to Colorado Bureau of Investigation for testing.
“I know from my training experience that any person who has that many scales, baggies and pipes is packaging and distributing illegal narcotics,” Moran said in his report.
They found a metal drinking bottle with an unknown alcoholic beverage inside and two small, unopened shooters as well.
Before the officers finished clearing the scene, Brian Rosales, who was thought to be Williams’ fiancé, showed up at the scene.
Moran found that Williams and Rosales both “have extensive criminal histories including dangerous drug possession.” Williams also had faced earlier drug-related charges.
Moran expressed his intent to receive a warrant to search Williams’ text messages, phone contacts and photos that might show that she was distributing illegal narcotics.
When arriving at the hospital, Moran spoke with Williams, who was deemed to have serious bodily injury by hospital staff and was able to get a blood sample to test for alcohol or illegal drugs in her system.
In Williams’ bag of clothing, Moran found another glass pipe with white residue inside, a small torch lighter and another small zip-close bag filled with what he said he believed to be methamphetamine.
Williams was flown out of Southwest Memorial Hospital because of her injuries, but the incident report did not state where she was flown to or the status of her injuries.
