{"id":49306,"date":"2021-01-13T18:12:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T01:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-mexico-man-arrested-for-allegedly-decapitating-family-kitten\/"},"modified":"2021-01-14T01:12:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T01:12:39","slug":"new-mexico-man-arrested-for-allegedly-decapitating-family-kitten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-mexico-man-arrested-for-allegedly-decapitating-family-kitten\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico man arrested for allegedly decapitating family kitten"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3c5b9f15-255a-4146-9b61-79d618b6d541&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1778\" height=\"1331\" alt=\"Weaver\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Weaver<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A Jicarilla Game and Fish officer has been arrested on suspicion of extreme cruelty to animals after authorities say the officer decapitated a family kitten.<\/p>\n<p>The Bloomfield Police Department said officers were dispatched to the 1700 block of Mountain View for a welfare check on the home of Joseph Weaver, a Jicarilla Game and Fish officer who was off duty at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Weaver\u2019s wife told officers she was making dinner when Weaver called her into the bedroom, the Bloomfield Police Department said in a news release. When she entered the room, Weaver was standing with a pocketknife in his hand.<\/p>\n<p>Weaver\u2019s wife told authorities the family\u2019s 9-week-old kitten was floating in the bathroom sink with the head severed from the body, the Bloomfield Police Department said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers inspected the home, finding a bloody pocketknife, blood on the bathroom wall and a decapitated kitten wrapped in a towel.<\/p>\n<p>Weaver was arrested on suspicion of extreme cruelty to animals, a fourth-degree felony and booked at the San Juan County Detention Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>is a Jicarilla Game and Fish officer, authorities say<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[168,28,138,29,443],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-49306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-crime","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\/49306","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=49306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49306"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=49306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}