{"id":51654,"date":"2020-09-10T12:35:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T18:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/farmington-man-charged-for-alleged-threats-toward-presidential-candidates\/"},"modified":"2020-09-10T18:35:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T18:35:17","slug":"farmington-man-charged-for-alleged-threats-toward-presidential-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/farmington-man-charged-for-alleged-threats-toward-presidential-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmington man charged for alleged threats toward presidential candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=cfc1028c-51dc-4fe1-bb5c-7e1d17f70a4f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1306\" height=\"1015\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A 63-year-old Farmington man has been charged on suspicion of making violent threats against presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden, as well as other elected officials, on social media.<\/p>\n<p>According to court filings, someone contacted the U.S. Secret Service in Albuquerque on April 19 about threatening posts on Facebook allegedly made by Steve Wayne Barton.<\/p>\n<p>Examples of posts include: \u201cIf Trump Wins? Kill Him,\u201d \u201cIf Biden Wins? Kills Him,\u201d \u201cSave America Now! Murder Every Politician Holding Office in America!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Secret Service contacted Barton on April 20, court documents show, and he was apologetic and said he would remove the posts and not make similar posts in the future.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 18, however, authorities were alerted that Barton allegedly made a post that said \u201cTRUMP IS SATAN! KILL HIM &amp; HIS FAMILY! THIS IS MY COMMAND!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Further investigation showed Barton made threatening posts throughout summer on multiple accounts and under fictitious names. Investigators also reported finding video of Barton threatening to shoot President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Barton was interviewed by the Secret Service and the San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office on Aug. 25, and he admitted to making the posts, court documents show.<\/p>\n<p>Barton was charged Aug. 26 on suspicion of threatening the president and a count of threatening a major candidate for the office of the president. He is out of custody awaiting trial.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, Barton faces up to five years in prison for each count.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigators say Steve Wayne Barton made violent posts on social media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[168,1137,799,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-51654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-crime","tag-donald-trump","tag-farmington","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51654","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=51654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51654"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=51654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}