{"id":41234,"date":"2022-04-11T14:50:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T20:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-suspected-in-new-mexico-homicide-is-arrested-in-illinois\/"},"modified":"2022-04-11T20:50:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T20:50:36","slug":"man-suspected-in-new-mexico-homicide-is-arrested-in-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-suspected-in-new-mexico-homicide-is-arrested-in-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"Man suspected in New Mexico homicide is arrested in Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=128787ad-3319-5157-b8e5-3ba8545f7917&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Blotter lights\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Blotter lights<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>FARMINGTON \u2013 A man suspected in the death of his former girlfriend in New Mexico last year has been arrested in Illinois, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Farmington police said 51-year-old Thomas Howard is facing a second-degree murder charge.<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear Sunday if Howard has a lawyer yet who can speak on his behalf.<\/p>\n<p>Police said officers went to do a welfare check on 65-year-old Roberta Baier on Dec. 6 after her friends reported not hearing from her in several days.<\/p>\n<p>After several failed attempts to contact her, officers entered Baier\u2019s apartment and found her dead.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the death was deemed suspicious and detectives began a homicide investigation.<\/p>\n<p>They said Howard was located in the Chicago suburb of Berwyn and arrested on an unrelated warrant.<\/p>\n<p>Howard remains in the custody of authorities in Cook County, Illinois as he awaits extradition to New Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blotter lightscca FARMINGTON \u2013 A man suspected in the death of his former girlfriend in New Mexico last year has been arrested in Illinois, according to authorities. Farmington police said 51-year-old Thomas Howard is facing a second-degree murder charge. It was unclear Sunday if Howard has a lawyer yet who can speak on his behalf. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[138],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-41234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41234","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=41234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41234"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=41234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}