{"id":48045,"date":"2021-03-11T19:28:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T02:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-assaulting-health-care-worker\/"},"modified":"2021-03-12T02:28:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T02:28:34","slug":"man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-assaulting-health-care-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-assaulting-health-care-worker\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested on suspicion of assaulting health care worker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=987e0c2e-7edc-4e3e-ba94-f88a12f22be8&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1333\" height=\"1000\" alt=\"Johnhat\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Johnhat<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>FARMINGTON \u2013 Farmington police arrested a homeless man believed to be intoxicated who allegedly threatened a health care worker who was called out to try to help him.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to the call Feb. 28 at the Dollar Tree, where the suspect, identified as Roy John Johnhat, threatened a Farmington Fire Department health care worker with a knife, according to a Farmington Police Department case report.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the Farmington Fire Department was called out for a well-being check for a man who was believed to be intoxicated and falling over. The health care worker and her co-worker arrived and tried to help, but Johnhat told them to leave him alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to the male being unable to care for himself, (the responders) continued to ask if he needed help,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the health care worker, when medics asked the man about needing assistance, he unfolded a pocket knife.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe male screamed at the two as he swung the open knife directly at (the health care worker),\u201d  according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>The two called for police to expedite their arrival. When police arrived about 2:25 p.m., they were able to make contact with Johnhat who was sitting on the ground on a dirt lot just east of the store.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe male seemed heavily intoxicated and was yelling obscenities at us,\u201d the narrative read.<\/p>\n<p>After police spoke with the health care worker, Johnhat was arrested and charged with aggravated assault on a health care worker and taken to the detention center where he was \u201cbooked on his charge,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Johnhat was in jail as of Tuesday. No other information about his court case was available.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:mmitchell@durangoherald.com\">mmitchell@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspect threatened woman with knife as she tried to render aid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[168,799,28,138,29,443],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-48045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-crime","tag-farmington","tag-headlines","tag-new-mexico","tag-newsletter","tag-san-juan-county-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48045","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=48045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48045"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=48045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}