{"id":34487,"date":"2023-04-24T18:05:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T00:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mall-locked-down-in-response-to-armed-juveniles\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:18:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:18:36","slug":"mall-locked-down-in-response-to-armed-juveniles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mall-locked-down-in-response-to-armed-juveniles\/","title":{"rendered":"Mall locked down in response to armed juveniles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=212cbd8e-873f-4999-b86c-dfa529e7af50&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1061\" alt=\"Farmington Police Department officer P. White drives on East Main Street on Aug. 15 in Farmington. The police department produced a video and made yard signs warning drivers to slow down.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Farmington Police Department officer P. White drives on East Main Street on Aug. 15 in Farmington. The police department produced a video and made yard signs warning drivers to slow down.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Animas Valley Mall was placed on lockdown early Saturday morning after juveniles, reportedly carrying firearms, were observed there.<\/p>\n<p>The juveniles were arrested and are believed to be connected to a string of auto burglaries in the area Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Farmington police officers were dispatched to the mall about 9:45 a.m. to investigate \u201ctwo incoherent juvenile subjects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officers located the two youths, one of whom had blood down the front of his pants. The other subject reportedly had a handgun in his waistband and was incoherent. Police arrested the youth with the handgun, but the other fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMedics were dispatched to check on the first juvenile who was still incoherent during his arrest,\u201d police spokeswoman Shanice Gonzales said.<\/p>\n<p>Police put the mall on lockdown as a safety precaution and began a search for the other subject, who was reportedly hiding in a nearby store.<\/p>\n<p>After securing the handgun, police discovered it was one of two handguns stolen in a string of auto burglaries the night before. During the auto burglary investigation, police found a large amount of blood on some of the burglarized vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>When police later located the second juvenile hiding at Dad\u2019s Diner, located south of the mall on Largo Street. Officers observed \u201cblood all down the front of their pants,\u201d according to an FPD news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe juvenile with the dried blood on Saturday was not injured or bleeding at the time of the arrest and did not require medical attention,\u201d Gonzales said.<\/p>\n<p>When asked where the blood came from, Gonzales said, \u201cThat is part of the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The second juvenile was reportedly in possession of the second stolen firearm. Both juveniles were taken into custody without incident.<\/p>\n<p>Police also believe a vehicle that was found wrecked on Sunrise Parkway near Pi\u00f1on Hills Golf Course, was allegedly stolen, driven by and crashed by the two juveniles arrested at the mall. Police say the youths left the scene of the crash on foot before officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p>The events connected with the arrest of the two juveniles remain under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>juveniles were arrested in connection to a string of auto burglaries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[168,799,2833,51],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-34487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-crime","tag-farmington","tag-farmington-police-department","tag-police"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34487","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=34487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82630,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34487\/revisions\/82630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34487"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=34487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}