{"id":16611,"date":"2025-09-08T21:43:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T03:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/farmington-police-warn-of-syringes-taped-to-public-toilet-seat-one-person-injured\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:59:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:59:55","slug":"farmington-police-warn-of-syringes-taped-to-public-toilet-seat-one-person-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/farmington-police-warn-of-syringes-taped-to-public-toilet-seat-one-person-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmington Police warn of syringes taped to public toilet seat; one person injured"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c73ddfcd-bfa5-582d-855f-f33ec28e5d2e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"820\" height=\"804\" alt=\"This is an actual Farmington Police Department photo of syringes taped to the toilet in the men\u2019s restroom at the East Main Walmart in Farmington. (Courtesy Farmington Police Department)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">This is an actual Farmington Police Department photo of syringes taped to the toilet in the men\u2019s restroom at the East Main Walmart in Farmington. (Courtesy Farmington Police Department)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Farmington Police Department is investigating an incident in which a 51-year-old man was injured by needles taped to a men\u2019s toilet seat in the East Main Walmart,  according to spokeswoman Shanice Gonzales.<\/p>\n<p>The man entered the Walmart bathroom at 3:30 p.m. Sept. 6 and was poked by the syringes when using the restroom, according to Gonzales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re trying to identify what substance was in the syringes,\u201d Gonzales said. \u201cWe are sending it to the state lab.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gonzales added this was not a \u201choax\u201d and the investigation was ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Medical professionals treated the man\u2019s injuries, she said. The <em id=\"emphasis-70b818ce8e04619bf632ce41ad32d8d0\">Tri-City Record<\/em> has requested a police report and does not yet know when the injury occurred. Police posted the notice on Facebook at 6:20 p.m. Saturday, according to the timestamp.<\/p>\n<p>While police believe this is an \u201cisolated incident,\u201d Gonzales said it is important for people to be cautious and inspect public restrooms before use.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with additional information or who witnesses suspicious activity is asked to call nonemergency dispatch at (505) 334-6622.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-17474ce98f187a63aff345666541b222\">This story was updated Sept. 8 to include the age of the injured man and the location of the store.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>believe case is an \u2018isolated incident\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-16611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20296,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16611\/revisions\/20296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16611"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=16611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}