{"id":34242,"date":"2023-05-02T11:40:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T17:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/shiprock-woman-arraigned-on-manslaughter-charge\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:17:14","slug":"shiprock-woman-arraigned-on-manslaughter-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/shiprock-woman-arraigned-on-manslaughter-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiprock woman arraigned on manslaughter charge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=77bbd78f-9120-54ca-b92a-2b9f0ba6f88a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"938\" height=\"698\" alt=\"Courtney Frank pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter April 27 in federal court. (Booking photo, San Juan County Adult Detention Center)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Courtney Frank pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter April 27 in federal court. (Booking photo, San Juan County Adult Detention Center)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A Shiprock woman was arraigned Thursday, April 27, during a preliminary and detention hearing in federal court.<\/p>\n<p>Courtney Frank, 19, pleaded not guilty to an involuntary manslaughter charge and an assault resulting in serious bodily injury charge in connection with a drunken driving crash Sept. 28, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Frank reportedly drove drunk \u201cwithout due caution and circumspection and with a wanton and reckless disregard for human life when she knew and should have known that her conduct imperiled the lives of others\u201d on a farm road in a remote area of the Navajo Nation in San Juan County, according to the indictment.<\/p>\n<p>Frank reportedly crashed her car head-on into another car driven by a mother, whose son was a passenger. The mother was killed, and the son suffered serious injury.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, Frank could face up to 10 years in prison. She was released from custody, while awaiting her trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 drunken driving crash killed a woman, injured a child<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[133,168,1655,443],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-34242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-navajo-nation","tag-san-juan-county-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34242","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=34242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82530,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34242\/revisions\/82530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34242"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=34242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}