Press release by Chief Jimmy Tidwell, Buena Vista Police Department

On the evening of Tuesday August 19^th, the Buena Vista Police Department and the Chaffee County Drug Task Force (to include members of the Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office and Salida Police Department) served a search warrant at 440 W. Mill St. as part of an investigation into the distribution and sale of methamphetamine. Officers of the Buena Vista Police Department and the Chaffee County Drug Task Force had been conducting this investigation for several weeks. Chaffee County sheriff’s deputies, to include members of the Chaffee County Tactical Team, assisted in the execution of the search warrant.

So far, two persons have been arrested in this investigation: Randall B. McGuire who was charged with Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance, a drug felony 4, and Unlawful Distribution, Manufacture, or Sale of a Schedule II and Schedule IV Controlled Substance, a drug felony 1. Also arrested was Christy Huffman, charged with Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance, a drug felony 4.