{"id":43183,"date":"2021-12-17T17:33:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T00:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/van-full-of-christmas-toys-stolen-in-farmington\/"},"modified":"2021-12-18T00:33:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T00:33:04","slug":"van-full-of-christmas-toys-stolen-in-farmington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/van-full-of-christmas-toys-stolen-in-farmington\/","title":{"rendered":"Van full of Christmas toys stolen in Farmington"},"content":{"rendered":"

FARMINGTON \u2013 Time is of the essence for the Salvation Army in New Mexico now that the Grinch has thrown a wrench into the group\u2019s holiday toy program.<\/p>\n

A van loaded with $6,000 worth of toys set to be passed out to hundreds of children was stolen this week from a store parking lot in Farmington.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a pretty Grinch-like thing to do,\u201d Farmington police spokesperson Nicole Brown told the Farmington Daily Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Brown said a detective conducted interviews after Tuesday\u2019s theft and the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n

Farmington police reached out via Facebook for the public\u2019s help in finding the white minivan.<\/p>\n

\u201cShock, disbelief, just how somebody could do that \u2013 especially in a marked vehicle, taking gifts for children,\u201d Lt. Christopher Rockwell with the Salvation Army Farmington Corps told KOB-TV.<\/a><\/p>\n

Meant for more than 350 kids, the toys were set to be distributed on Monday. Now, the hope is to replace the stolen toys before Monday. Rockwell said the community has already responded in a big way by donating more toys and money.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe response of the community and what they\u2019re doing is absolutely heartwarming because this area is just so generous and giving here in Farmington and the Four Corners area,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Salvation Army operates out of 25 centers around New Mexico and provides church service, food for the hungry and shelter and clothes for the homeless, among other services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FARMINGTON \u2013 Time is of the essence for the Salvation Army in New Mexico now that the Grinch has thrown a wrench into the group\u2019s holiday toy program. A van loaded with $6,000 worth of toys set to be passed out to hundreds of children was stolen this week from a store parking lot in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[815],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-43183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-associated-press-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43183","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=43183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43183"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=43183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}