{"id":35022,"date":"2023-03-28T11:31:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T17:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/sheriffs-office-warns-of-scam-in-northern-new-mexico\/"},"modified":"2023-03-28T17:31:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T17:31:46","slug":"sheriffs-office-warns-of-scam-in-northern-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/sheriffs-office-warns-of-scam-in-northern-new-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff\u2019s Office warns of scam in northern New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c16e5caa-73e4-5d09-83dd-b7e5efa38159&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1414\" alt=\"(Adobe Stock)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">(Adobe Stock)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office warned community members of a scam circulating the area involving a caller identifying himself as Lt. Mike White and attempting to solicit payments by phone for missed court.<\/p>\n<p>The caller reportedly tells the person that they may pay fees in person, but for his or her convenience fees may also be paid over the phone.<\/p>\n<p>SJCSO stated that the office does not employ a Lt. Mike White and that the Sheriff\u2019s Office does not collect court fees. They do not collect fees over the phone for any reason.<\/p>\n<p>SJCSO recommended that individuals always call an agency directly to make a payment rather than making a payment when contacted by an individual in order to validate that the fee exists and that payments are being paid to a legitimate agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Callers are soliciting payments over the phone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[202,168,51,443,2656],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-35022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-briefs","tag-crime","tag-police","tag-san-juan-county-new-mexico","tag-san-juan-county-sheriffs-office-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35022","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=35022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35022"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=35022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}