{"id":45374,"date":"2021-08-06T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fbi-investigating-death-of-man-on-navajo-nation\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:24:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:24:49","slug":"fbi-investigating-death-of-man-on-navajo-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fbi-investigating-death-of-man-on-navajo-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI investigating death of man on Navajo Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<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&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;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><p>FARMINGTON \u2013 A month after a man was found dead on the Navajo Nation, the FBI has reached out to the public to ask for assistance in identifying the responsible party\/parties.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Barney Sr. was found dead outside his home, according to a news release from the FBI. The 50-year-old man\u2019s home was located on Roadrunner Drive in Sundance, New Mexico, on the Navajo Nation.<\/p>\n<p>While the cause of death is pending, it is being considered suspicious, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information should contact the FBI by calling (505) 889-1300 or sending information online at tips.fbi.gov.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-df44ccbf9d0d19e06446da9eafdaf044\"><a href=\"mailto:mmitchell@durangoherald.com\">mmitchell@durangoherald.com<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials are asking for public\u2019s help<\/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":[168,799,28,1655,443],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-45374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-crime","tag-farmington","tag-headlines","tag-navajo-nation","tag-san-juan-county-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45374","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=45374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86466,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45374\/revisions\/86466"}],"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=45374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45374"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=45374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}