{"id":2440711,"date":"2019-02-18T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-man-charged-in-political-official-assault\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T00:04:00","slug":"aspen-man-charged-in-political-official-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-man-charged-in-political-official-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen man charged in political official assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Aspen police arrested a Centennial resident Saturday and charged him with assaulting the chairman of the Pitkin County Democratic Party last week, a sergeant said Monday. Reed Gokey, 68, was charged with misdemeanor third-degree assault in connection with the alleged incident, which occurred Feb. 11, said Aspen police Sgt. Mike Tracey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Howie Wallach said Thursday he was out canvassing Monday with another man when he knocked on Gokey&#8217;s door at the Centennial affordable-housing complex. Gokey allegedly accused Wallach of trespassing, then attacked him when Wallach argued that he wasn&#8217;t trespassing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Wallach said Gokey punched and kicked him, then threw him head-first down a flight of metal stairs. Wallach said he was not injured, probably because he was heavily bundled up against the cold day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-man-charged-in-political-official-assault\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aspen police arrested a Centennial resident Saturday and charged him with assaulting the chairman of the Pitkin County Democratic Party last week, a sergeant said Monday. Reed Gokey, 68, was charged with misdemeanor third-degree assault in connection with the alleged incident, which occurred Feb. 11, said Aspen police Sgt. Mike Tracey. Howie Wallach said Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2440711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 01:07:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}