{"id":48350,"date":"2021-02-26T16:03:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T23:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-stabbing-at-animas-mall-in-farmington\/"},"modified":"2021-02-26T23:03:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T23:03:17","slug":"man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-stabbing-at-animas-mall-in-farmington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-stabbing-at-animas-mall-in-farmington\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested on suspicion of stabbing at Animas Mall in Farmington"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=53cf268d-59d2-43a9-871b-5a0f376bf27f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1294\" height=\"985\" alt=\"Willie\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Willie<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>FARMINGTON \u2013 Farmington police officers arrested a man outside the Animas Valley Mall earlier this week on suspicion of a stabbing.<\/p>\n<p>The Farmington Police Department said security officers for the mall called police about 6 p.m. Monday and asked for assistance with a man, later identified at Raymond Willie, 46, who was wielding a knife and threatening mall-goers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe man had been aggressive with other customers and security while inside the mall,\u201d according to a news release issued by the department..<\/p>\n<p>Willie had purchased the knife from a business inside the mall and then went outside and started threatening people, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>Before officers arrived, a bystander tried to help security disarm Willie from behind. Security was able to pepper-spray Willie as Willie began stabbing the citizen who was helping to disarm him, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they rendered aid to the unidentified man and detained Willie.<\/p>\n<p>The injured man was taken to San Juan Regional Medical Center where he was treated and listed in stable condition. Attempts to speak with the man were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>Willie was charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.<\/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>Bystander stepped in to help disarm suspect<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[168,799,28,138,29,51,443],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-48350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-crime","tag-farmington","tag-headlines","tag-new-mexico","tag-newsletter","tag-police","tag-san-juan-county-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48350","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=48350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48350"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=48350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}