{"id":35621,"date":"2023-02-23T00:02:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T07:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/suspect-in-custody-after-allegedly-showing-a-gun-at-farmington-high\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:25:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:25:46","slug":"suspect-in-custody-after-allegedly-showing-a-gun-at-farmington-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/suspect-in-custody-after-allegedly-showing-a-gun-at-farmington-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in custody after allegedly showing a gun at Farmington High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8ea84b7f-590a-55c3-8d48-c589d088c106&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"Farmington High School, scene of an emergency lockdown. (David Edward Albright\/Durango Herald)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Farmington High School, scene of an emergency lockdown. (David Edward Albright\/Durango Herald)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Farmington Police Department on Friday reported that officers had taken a person into custody in connection with a lockdown at Farmington High School earlier that day.<\/p>\n<p>Farmington police reported that a 17 year-old juvenile has been charged, and he is still in custody. The weapon was a handgun, said police spokeswoman Shanice Gonzales.<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, spokesman for Farmington Municipal Schools Roberto Taboada said two students reported they saw a peer \u201cflash\u201d a weapon. He could not say what kind of weapon was involved. He said the call came in about 11:50 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have students who reported that they saw one of their peers flash them that he had a weapon,\u201d Taboada said. \u201cHe showed them that he had a weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The police department announced on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FarmingtonPoliceDepartmentNM\/\" id=\"link-a5206b06dda84f27a4391a8881632fc6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook page<\/a> that the school went into lockdown after noon Friday, Feb. 17, as officers conducted a \u201csweep\u201d of the school.<\/p>\n<p>A school resource officer was in the building at the time, Taboada said, adding that students remained in classrooms behind locked doors until the lockdown was lifted about 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>After a search of the buildings, \u201cno subject with a weapon had been found,\u201d Taboada said.<\/p>\n<p>Farmington police are continuing their investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>continue investigation after school lockdown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[799,138],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-35621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-farmington","tag-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35621","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=35621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83043,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35621\/revisions\/83043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35621"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=35621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}