{"id":33494,"date":"2023-06-10T00:07:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T06:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fight-between-brothers-leaves-one-dead-in-farmington\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:10:47","slug":"fight-between-brothers-leaves-one-dead-in-farmington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fight-between-brothers-leaves-one-dead-in-farmington\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight between brothers leaves one dead in Farmington"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e9979376-946f-5ebb-8d1a-f74954de5466&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"700\" height=\"380\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A violent night of drinking resulted in two brothers fighting to the death of one.<\/p>\n<p>The Farmington Office of the FBI reported Vern A. Anderson, 40, of Fruitland, admitted to an involuntary manslaughter charge in connection to the death of his brother.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson entered a plea agreement on May 17, 2022, and was sentenced June 7 to two years in federal prison.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson admitted to drinking heavily with his brother on Sept. 26, 2021, when the two got into a physical fight at a home in Nenahnezad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnderson stabbed his brother in the back, chest and head a total of five times,\u201d court records stated. \u201c(The brother) suffered multiple defensive wounds on his hands and arms in the violent attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Once released from prison, Anderson was ordered to serve three years of supervised parole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to stabbing in plea agreement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[133,168,28,1655,1774],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-33494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-headlines","tag-navajo-nation","tag-shiprock"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33494","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=33494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82226,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33494\/revisions\/82226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33494"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=33494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}