{"id":34190,"date":"2023-05-04T23:10:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T05:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/body-found-in-farmington-identified-autopsy-planned\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:16:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:16:34","slug":"body-found-in-farmington-identified-autopsy-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/body-found-in-farmington-identified-autopsy-planned\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in Farmington identified; autopsy planned"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=58e2fe1d-2d88-5960-affc-a243ca597d54&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"681\" alt=\"Farmington police identify body found Wednesday in the area of Southside River Road. (Herald file photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Farmington police identify body found Wednesday in the area of Southside River Road. (Herald file photo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A Farmington man, who was last seen April 30, was found dead Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Ervin Foster, 64, was reported missing May 2. Farmington Police sought help in locating him on social media. He was found dead at 2:12 p.m. Wednesday in the 2200 block of Southside River Road.<\/p>\n<p>Farmington Police responded to the location. Foster was discovered \u201cnear a water-filled ditch north of the roadway,\u201d police spokesperson Shanice Gonzales wrote in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Police updated social media at 5:48 p.m. Wednesday saying Foster had been located.<\/p>\n<p>His body was turned over to the Office of the Medical Investigator for an autopsy, and officials there will work with Farmington police detectives to determine a cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second body found by Farmington police in less than a month. The other body was a woman discovered April 9 in Berg Park. Details surrounding her death and her identity have not been released by police.<\/p>\n<p>Both incidents remain under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the disappearance and death of Foster is encouraged to call the Farmington Police Detective Division Tipline at (505) 599-1068.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>was found in the 2200 block of Southside River Road<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[799,2833,28,51],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-34190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-farmington","tag-farmington-police-department","tag-headlines","tag-police"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34190","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=34190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82508,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34190\/revisions\/82508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34190"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=34190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}