{"id":28416,"date":"2024-04-01T23:11:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T05:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/siblings-allegedly-battered-in-kirtland-after-refusing-to-eat-cheesy-potatoes\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T00:29:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:29:32","slug":"siblings-allegedly-battered-in-kirtland-after-refusing-to-eat-cheesy-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/siblings-allegedly-battered-in-kirtland-after-refusing-to-eat-cheesy-potatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Siblings allegedly battered in Kirtland after refusing to eat cheesy potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a38b3ef8-1f50-54c6-9777-f17b5adbb02b&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" alt=\"Rodrigo Toscano\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Rodrigo Toscano<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A Kirtland man reportedly attacked and battered two of his siblings and threw food around the house after a disagreement over \u201ccheesy potatoes,\u201d authorities say.<\/p>\n<p>Rodrigo Toscano, 23, of Kirtland, wanted his brother Ernesto Toscano \u201cto eat the cheesy potatoes,\u201d instead of the regular mashed potatoes, but Ernesto did not want them, which reportedly sent Rodrigo into a violent tirade, according to the statement of probable cause.<\/p>\n<p>San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies were called at 11:32 a.m. March 29 to the home on County Road 6409. Upon arrival, Ernesto Toscano and his sister, who is a minor, told investigators that Rodrigo \u201chad battered them and \u2018choked,\u2019 both of them,\u201d according to the statement of probable cause.<\/p>\n<p>Rodrigo Toscano also reportedly \u201cgrabbed a knife\u201d and \u201cstarted stabbing a cutting board on the island counter,\u201d in the kitchen, leading his 17-year-old sister to tell deputies that \u201cshe felt very scared,\u201d and that when \u201cRodrigo gets angry, he will grab knifes and start stabbing things,\u201d according to the probable cause statement.<\/p>\n<p>The young woman also said that Rodrigo Toscano \u201cnever attempted to stab them,\u201d but he allegedly \u201cgrabbed her by the neck with his hands\u201d and choked her. He also reportedly caused her to lose her breath and scratched her, breaking the skin, according to the statement of probable cause.<\/p>\n<p>After his fight with his sister, Rodrigo Toscano reportedly grabbed \u201clemons from a table in the living room and was throwing them down onto the ground,\u201d and then, he went into Ernesto Toscano\u2019s room, where the two reportedly exchanged \u201cblows\u201d and threw \u201cfood at each other,\u201d according to the probable cause statement.<\/p>\n<p>Rodrigo reportedly admitted to all the allegations and was charged with two counts of third-degree felony aggravated batteries with a deadly weapon. He was booked into the San Juan County Detention Center, and a public safety assessment recommended he be released on his own recognizance.<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary hearing is set for 8 a.m. April 11 in San Juan County Magistrate Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toscano allegedly attacks sister and brother, throws food<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-28416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28416","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=28416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80406,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28416\/revisions\/80406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28416"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=28416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}